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NRC approves subsequent license renewal for Oconee
All three units at the Duke Energy’s Oconee nuclear power plant in South Carolina are now licensed to operate for an additional 20 years.
Vincent S. Chan, Chuan Sheng Liu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 7 | Number 2 | March 1985 | Pages 288-295
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A24545
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A theory is presented to account for the wave energy in lower hybrid current drive experiments when the density threshold for decay into ion cyclotron quasi-mode is exceeded. Immediately above the threshold, convective losses dominate and discrete sidebands are excited. These sidebands have much larger wave-numbers, and strong minority ion heating is possible. Majority ion heating occurs, however, only at high power. At higher densities, ion Landau damping becomes important. The frequency spectrum is non-monotonic in this region with the minimum frequency determined by nonlinear coupling. Majority ion absorption is significant even at moderate power levels.