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Proposed rule for more flexible licensing under Part 53 is open for comment
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has published a proposed rule that has been five years in the making: Risk-Informed, Technology-Inclusive Regulatory Framework for Advanced Reactors. The rule, which by law must take its final form before the end of 2027, would let the NRC and license applicants use technology-inclusive approaches and risk-informed, performance-based techniques to effectively license any nuclear technology. This is a departure from two licensing options with light water reactor–specific regulatory requirements that applicants can already choose.
S.E. Grebenshchikov, G.M. Batanov, O.I. Fedyanin, D.K. Akulina, E.D. Andryukhina, V.V. Abrakov, M.S. Berezhetskii, I.S. Danilkin, N.P. Donskaya, G.A. Gladkov, N.K. Kharchev, Yu.V. Kholnov, L.M. Kolik, L.M. Kovrizhnykh, N.F. Larionova, A.A. Letunov, K.M. Likin, A.I. Meshcheryakov, Yu.I. Nechaev, A.E. Petrov, K.A. Sarksyan, I.S. Sbitnikova, E.R. Sisov, A.D. Smirnova, V.N. Sukhodol'skii, G.S. Voronov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | April 1995 | Pages 270-272
Helical Systems | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11947085
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The first results of ECH experiments in the L-2M stellarator are presented. The main goal of the experiments is to investigate the physics of ECH and plasma confinement at very high values of the volume heating power density. A current free plasma is produced and heated by extraordinary waves at the second harmonic of the electron cyclotron frequency. The experimental results are compared with the numerical simulations of plasma confinement and heating processes based on neoclassical theory using the full matrix of transport coefficients and with LHD-scaling.