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DOE issues new NEPA rule and procedures—and accelerates DOME reactor testing
Meeting a deadline set in President Trump’s May 23 executive order “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy,” the DOE on June 30 updated information on its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rulemaking and implementation procedures and published on its website an interim final rule that rescinds existing regulations alongside new implementing procedures.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 767-778
Plasma Heating, Impurity Control, and Fueling | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40129
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The utilization of ICRF heating for mirror devices has developed renewed interest with the major devices now operating. Recent results have shown efficient ion heating, control of the ion distribution function and suppression of instabilities by use of RF power in the ICRF regime. These results as well as the design considerations for reactor concepts such as MARS make ICRF heating important for the mirror program. The ICRF system must meet both the start up requirements for mirror devices as well as providing a source of power for operation at high temperatures. Methods for obtaining the desired results have been under development for the MFTF-B device. With the start up of MFTF-B the mirror applications of ICRF will be operating in the reactor relevant regime of density and temperature.