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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.”
K.H. Finken
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 2 | March 2002 | Pages 337-341
Edge Physics and Exhaust | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A11963533
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The Dynamic Ergodic Divertor (DED) is presently installed in TEXTOR. One of the aims is the study of the mitigation of the heat flux by rotating the divertor strike points. After an introduction into the theory of ergodization, the design of the DED is presented. The Chirikov parameter describing the level of ergodization reaches a level of up to four if the perturbation current is applied in an optimized way. Finally the rich physics options of the DED are discussed.
