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DOE announces NEPA exclusion for advanced reactors
The Department of Energy has announced that it is establishing a categorical exclusion for the application of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) procedures to the authorization, siting, construction, operation, reauthorization, and decommissioning of advanced nuclear reactors.
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B. Jenko, A. Paulin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 4 | December 1991 | Pages 879-882
Magnetic Fusion Reactors/Beam-Driven Systems | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A11946953
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An intense current in a hypothetical superconducting ring wire creates circular symmetric magnetic field. The calculation of such a field is performed numerically. Complete elliptic integrals of the first and second kind with modulus βkβ approaching unity in the vicinity of the current carrying wire are used. The trajectories of charged particles moving along the current carrying wire are calculated neglecting space charge effect. With proper parameter selection toroidal magnetic field confines charged particles. Cycloid type trajectories without touching the axial current carrying wire are obtained. Such an arrangement could be used as charged particle beam guiding or storage system.