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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.”
T. Saito, Y. Tatematsu, Y. Kiwamoto, K. Kajiwara, Y. Yoshimura, H. Abe, K. Ito, A. Suzuki, A. Yamazaki, H. Koyama, S. Umehara, K. Ishii, M. Ichimura, A. Mase, T. Tamano, K. Yatsu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 233-237
Oral Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963858
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This paper describes characteristics of end loss electrons (ELE's) from a tandem mirror. Without electron cyclotron resonance heating (plug ECRH), ELE's issue from an ICRF heated hot ion plasma. Their temperature increases with the hot ion diamagnetism. Drag heating of electrons on hot ions balances with axial loss due to Coulomb scattering. Landau damping of an Alfvén ion cyclotron wave is also observed in this phase. On application of the plug ECRH, an intense loss flux of warm electrons is generated The axial heat flow carried by the warm electrons significantly increases. Control of the axial flux of the warm electrons is tried A highly transparent mesh is put up over an end plate and a bias voltage negative to the end plate is applied to the mesh. Then secondary electrons emitted from the end plate are suppressed and the loss flux of the warm electrons decreases to about one third of that without the mesh bias. This reduction factor is much smaller than the value expected from the rate of ion plugging. A possible cause of this is an ion current through a plasma behind the end plate.