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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.”
Yutaka Matsumoto, Tatsuhiko Nagaura, Tsuguhiro Watanabe, Shun-Ichi Oikawa
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 309-315
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963468
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Detailed stracture of the magnetic field in the Large Helical Deveice (LHD) is studied numerically. The connection length of the divertor field line is found to be the order of several km or more. The possibility of the mirror-confined plasma in the chaotic field line region is shown. The divertor plasma model is proposed based on the long connection length and the existence of the mirror-confined plasma in the chaotic field line region. A new ICRF heating scheme (runaway ion heating scheme) for LHD is also proposed based on the existence of the mirror-confined plasma in the core plasma region.