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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
Hiromasa Takeno, Yasuyoshi Yasaka
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 386-389
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963487
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Particle discrimination and deceleration are studied with employing experimental devices which simulate direct energy converters used for D–3He reactor. A Cusp-DEC simulator with a slanted cusp field is constructed, and the preparative numerical simulation about it shows the better discrimination is expected for ions with a small pitch angle. Experimental results in a TWDEC simulator are presented. Due to the measurements of energy distribution, the effectiveness of spatially varied wavelength structure is demonstrated. The simple 1-D orbit calculation shows that the efficiency of the same extent as that of the 2-D numerical simulation would be achieved in the experimental device.