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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
M. Okamoto, N. Nakajima, K. Ichiguchi, S. Murakami, H. Sugama, R. Kanno, T. Hayashi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | April 1995 | Pages 79-84
Overview Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11947049
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Physics studies are carried out on heliotron/torsatron plasmas concentraring on the Large Helical Device (LHD). Flexibility and freedom of LHD as an experimental device are emphasized. A variety of configurations can be realized changing the pitch parameter and the poloidal fields. The possibilities to reduce the bootstrap current and to enhance the radial electric field are investigated.
