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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.
According to the DOE, this significant change, which goes into effect today, “is based on the experience of DOE and other federal agencies, current technologies, regulatory requirements, and accepted industry practice.”
B.G. Hong, Y.D. Bae, J.G. Kwak, C.K. Hwang, B.H. Choi, Y.S. Cho, W. Namkung, M.H. Cho, H.S. Kang, D.W. Swain, H.L. Yang, J. Kim, G.S. Lee
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 412-418
Plasma Fueling, Heating, and Current Drive | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963648
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Requirements and design characteristics of the heating and current drive systems for KSTAR (Korean Super conducting Tokamak Advanced Research)1,2 tokamak are described. The neutral beam (NB), the ion cyclotron (IC), lower hybrid (LH) and electron cyclotron (EC) heating systems provide heating as well as current drive capability for long pulse lengths of up to 300 s. The systems are designed to provide flexibility in the control of current density and pressure profiles for the study of advanced tokamak plasmas.
