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NRC reorganization update: Changes will begin this summer
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is moving forward with its plans to reorganize around three core business lines: new reactors, operating reactors, and nuclear materials and waste. In order to do that, the agency will establish two new offices: the Office of Advanced Reactors (OAR) and the Office of the Chief Nuclear Reactor Inspector (CNRI).
C. Wang, B. Lu, J. Liang, H. Zeng, X. Y. Bai, Y. L. Chen, M. Huang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 73 | Number 4 | May 2018 | Pages 539-544
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1396149
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A pillbox-type radio-frequency window for lower-hybrid current drive power transmission of 3.7 GHz for 200 kW/2 s is designed. The relative permittivity and the loss tangent of several domestic materials—alumina, boron nitride, and sapphire—are exactly compared by the rectangular cavity perturbation method, and finally, the sapphire is chosen as the window medium. The reflection coefficient of the optimized window can reach 55−dB at 3.7 GHz simulated by high-frequency simulation software, and the peak temperature rise can be limited at 20°C with maximum thermal stress of 1.7 MPa by thermal and mechanical analysis. In the high-power test, 221 kW/3 s energy passes the welded window.