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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.
Shigefumi Okada, Susumu Ueki, Haruhiko Himura, Seiichi Goto
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | April 1995 | Pages 341-344
Compact Torus (Field-Reversed Configuration, Spheromak) Concepts | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11947101
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Confinement magnetic field of a field-reversed-configuration (FRC) plasma is reduced by a factor of about 10 and plasma density is decreased by a factor of about 100 without lowering the temperature seriously by translating a theta-pinch produced FRC plasma axially into a large bore metal vessel. Reduced magnetic field brings the lower-hybrid frequency into a range easily detected by magnetic probes. Search for wave activities in the FRC plasma for a wide frequency range disclosed magnetic field fluctuations in the lower-hybrid-drift frequency range for the first time in the FRC plasma. The identification of the mode is not done yet but the fluctuation level is close to the values predicted by theories on the LHD instability. This fluctuation level is not large enough to account for the transport rate of the particles from the FRC plasma.
