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Ho Nieh, TVA board members, and nuclear fuel recycling bill head to Senate floor
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Ho Nieh, the Trump administration’s nominee to be a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and four new board members of the Tennessee Valley Authority were approved in a vote today by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and head to the Senate floor for a final vote.
The committee also voted to advance to the Senate floor the Nuclear REFUEL Act of 2025 (S. 2082), which would smooth the regulatory pathway for recycling used nuclear fuel.
President Donald nominated Nieh on July 30 to serve as NRC commissioner for the remainder of a term set to expire June 30, 2029, which was held by former NRC commissioner Chris Hanson, who Trump fired in June.
W. J. Chen, D. L. Yu, L. W. Yan, B. S. Yuan, X. X. He, L. Liu, Y. L. Wei, N. Zhang, X. F. He, H. Wu, Z. B. Shi, Y. Liu, Q. W. Yang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 76 | Number 1 | January 2020 | Pages 37-44
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2019.1629251
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In order to reconstruct the plasma current density, the Current Profile Fitting (CPF) code has been successfully developed on the HL-2A tokamak. A seven-channel motional Stark effect (MSE) diagnostic based on dual photoelastic modulators is installed to measure the pitch angle of the magnetic field, which can be used as an internal magnetic field constraint for the CPF code. Recently, the MSE polarimeter was upgraded with a real-time wavelength matching system to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. The magnetic field angle (γpitch) with a temporal resolution of 10 ms can be provided. In the CPF code, the plasma current density is described as a polynomial, and the Least-Squares method is used to determine the coefficients of the polynomial. The Finite Difference method and the Strongly Implicit Procedure method are used to solve the Grad-Shafranov equation. The code operation is stable. With the improved-quality MSE data, the CPF calculation result of shot 30782 suggests that the safety factor q profile is monotonic. The minimum q value is less than 1 on-axis during sawtooth oscillations in shot 30782. And, the position of the q = 1 surface is consistent with the sawtooth inversion radius measured by electron cyclotron emission and soft X-ray diagnostics.