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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.”
Toshiro Kaneko, Yutaka Miyahara, Rikizo Hatakeyama, Noriyoshi Sato
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 335-339
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963879
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The formation of a plasma potential is experimentally investigated in a fully-ionized collisionless plasma flow along converging magnetic-field lines in the presence of a single ECR point. When the ECR occurs in the region of converging region, the potential profile is observed to be drastically modified. The resultant potential structure consists of a negative potential dip and a subsequent positive potential hump working as a plasma-flow dike potential, which persists in the steady state when the ECR point is located in a region of good curvature of the magnetic configuration. However, this potential structure temporally collapses when the ECR point is located in a bad curvature region. The phenomenon is considered to be caused by low-frequency flute and drift instabilities.