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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.”
Kiyoshi Yatsu, Leonid G. Bruskin, Teruji Cho, Minoru Hamada, Mafumi Hirata, Hitoshi Hojo, Makoto Ichimura, Kameo Ishii, Khairul M. Islam, Akiyoshi Itakura, Isao Katanuma, Yasuhito Kiwamoto, Junko Kohagura, Shigeyuki Kubota, Atsushi Mase, Yousuke Nakashima, Teruo Saito, Yoshiteru Sakamoto, Teruo Tamano, Yoshinori Tatematsu, Tokihiko Tokuzawa, Masayuki Yoshikawa
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 52-59
Invited Lectures | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963826
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Potential confinement of an ICRF-heated high-ion temperature plasma in GAMMA 10 is experimentally studied. The potential confinement was shown from data of one-end plugging and both-end plugging. The waveform of end loss current and an analysis of end loss ion energies have also indicated potential formation and confinement. The central cell line density increases 50% by the potential confinement. Some radial losses were observed in the anchor and/or plug/barrier regions and a rate of the radial loss was measured by using the data from one-end plugging. Under an experimental condition, the radial loss rate was estimated to be about 3%. In order to reduce the radial loss, conducting plates were installed adjacent to the plasma in the anchor transition region. The density increase of 60 % was attained after installation of the conducting plates and a higher density increase can be expected in the near future. The density increase was 50% before installation of the conducting plates. Controllability and reproducibility of the potential confinement are also improved after installation of the conducting plates.