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EPA administrator Lee Zeldin talks the future of nuclear
In a recent interview on New York radio station 77 WABC, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Lee Zeldin talked with host John Catsimatidis about the near-term future of the domestic nuclear industry and the role the EPA will play in the sector.
Catsimatidis kicked off the interview by asking if the U.S. will be able to reach total energy independence. Zeldin responded by saying that decreasing energy dependence on other countries, especially adversaries, was a top priority for him and the Trump administration.
Yuuji Okamoto, Masayuki Yoshikawa, Naohiro Yamaguchi, Chikara Watabe, Eiichirou Kawamori, Yoshihiko Watanabe, Takatoshi Furukawa, Teruo Tamano, Kiyoshi Yatsu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 293-296
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963464
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Measurements of spectra in the wavelength range from vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) to soft X-ray are important means to diagnose impurities in magnetically confined plasmas used in fusion plasmas such as a GAMMA 10 plasma. Recently, a space- and time-resolving flat-field grazing-incidence VUV spectrograph was constructed for the simultaneous observation of spatial, temporal and spectral distributions of plasma radiation in the wavelength range of 150-1050 Å. Absolute calibration experiments of the space- and time-resolving VUV spectrograph in the wavelength range of 450-1050 Å were performed for the first time under both S and P polarized light conditions at beamline 11C in the Photon Factory at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization. Thus, we can obtain radial profiles of the absolute emissions from the impurities by using Abel inversion, and estimate the density of impurity ions such as oxygen, carbon and so on. From the total impurity ion densities, we can estimate Zeff. During the formation of plug potential by ECRH, the highly-ionized impurities increased as a result of rising of electron temperature. The Zeff with plug potential is larger than that without plug potential.