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NRC issues Palisades’ final environmental assessment of no significant findings
The Palisades nulear power plant received a final “clean bill” of environmental assessment impact from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission today.
The NRC’s staff EA and conclusion of no significant environmental impact for the Covert, Mich., plant, which plans to restart after operations were halted three years ago this month due to economic hardships in the energy market.
Tomohiro Morisaki, Akio Komori, Shoichi Okamura, Hiroshi Yamada, Shigeru Morita, Keisuke Matsuoka, Kiyohiko Nishimura, Harukazu Iguchi, Osamu Motojima, Yoshinobu Kawai
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | April 1995 | Pages 235-238
Helical Systems | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11947077
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The temporal behavior of electron density profiles of edge plasmas in the Compact Helical System (CHS) during high beta discharges was measured with a thermal neutral lithium beam probe. A large outward shift of the plasma edge boundary was observed with an increase in the beta value. The position of the plasma edge boundary measured experimentally was compared with that of the last closed flux surface (LCFS) calculated by the VMEC code, and qualitative agreement was found between experimental and theoretical results. The experiment on the dynamic poloidal field control during the discharge was also performed successfully to fix the position of the edge plasma boundary when the plasma beta was raised.
