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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.”
S. S. Kim, N. S. Yoon, B. H. Park, J. Y. Kim
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 241-244
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963451
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A self-consistent global discharge simulation code, which combines a global transport module and a radiofrequency (RF) wave heating module in a self-consistent manner, has been developed for the Hanbit-device discharge modeling. Global fluid equations of ions and electrons are solved with oxygen impurity recycling equations in the global transport module, while Maxwell-Boltzmann equations are solved by the mode analysis technique in the RF heating module. Using the code, the global transport dynamics of ions, electrons, neutrals, and oxygen impurities can be studied as a function of external parameters, in the self-consistent calculation of the RF power deposition into the plasma from a model antenna system. Here, a simulation study is presented for the reference operation mode of the Hanbit mirror device to predict its performance.