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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.”
Y. Mori, T. Noutsuka, Y. Takao, H. Nakashima
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 195-198
Topical Lectures | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963440
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Preliminary experiments are made on the EICR plasma thruster which can generate plasma with ECRH (Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating) and accelerate ions with ICRFPI (Ion Cyclotron Range of Frequency Heating). A set of plasma diagnostics is being developed and installed. The electron temperature Te, electron density ne and ion temperature Ti were measured in our device. To examine ICRF wave propagation in the plasma, the magnetic fields were measured and the results show that the excited waves were attenuated before reaching the ICR layer. Moreover, ICRF wave absorption and propagation were calculated with an ICRF code. The strong energy absorption in the plasma was obtained at the ICR layers.