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Senate committee advances NRC nominee Matthew Marzano
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The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted 10–9 last week to advance the nomination of Matthew Marzano to serve on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. It was a party-line vote, with all Democrats supporting Marzano and all Republicans voting “no.”
Marzano was nominated by President Biden in July to fill the open NRC seat, and the EPW Committee held a hearing in September on his nomination. His nomination will now go to the Senate for a vote, but it is not certain whether that will happen before the end of the year, in which case his nomination process would start over in 2025.
The five-member commission has been without a tiebreaker vote since June 2023 when Jeff Baran’s term expired.
N. Nakajima, M. Sato, Y. Nakamura, A. Fukuyama, S. Murakami, A. Wakasa, K. Y. Watanabe, S. Toda, H. Yamada
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 58 | Number 1 | July-August 2010 | Pages 289-296
Chapter 6. 3-D Theory | Special Issue on Large Helical Device (LHD) | doi.org/10.13182/FST10-A10815
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
One of the purposes of fusion simulations is to develop a code that could predict the entire temporal behavior of experimentally observed macroscopic physics quantities under continuous external control, which will be used to create the path to helical-type reactor by combining knowledge of reactor design. In this paper an integrated simulation code system for three-dimensional toroidal helical plasmas in the Large Helical Device (LHD) is reported. This code has been developed under the domestic and international research collaborations among universities and institutes. After explaining the structure of the code system, including the transport simulation code TASK3D and the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibrium and stability code MHD3D, we present typical simulation results: evolution of the rotational transform, MHD stability beta limit, and recent progress in the TASK3D code.
