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Project Matador joins EIS pilot program; NRC seeks public input
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has released a notice of intent to conduct a scoping process and prepare an environmental impact statement to evaluate Fermi America’s plan to construct and operate four AP1000 reactors at its Project Matador Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus in Texas.
While that announcement may seem routine, the process envisioned is not. As part of the company’s combined license (COL) application with the NRC, it has agreed to participate in an accelerated environmental review pilot program under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Under this pilot, the applicant(s) develop a draft EIS under NRC supervision.
Y. Morimoto, S. Akahori, A. Shimada, K. Iguchi, K. Okuno, M. Nishikawa, K. Munakata, A. Baba, T. Kawagoe, H. Moriyama, K. Kawamoto, M. Okada
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 634-638
Fusion Materials | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963309
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Understanding of the tritium release process from ceramic breeders is of importance to establish a reliable tritium recovery concept for fusion reactors. Release behavior of tritium produced in the neutron-irradiated Li4SiO4 is investigated by the Thermal Desorption Spectroscopy (TDS). Thermal annealing behavior of the irradiation damages was also studied by Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) method.
These experimental results showed that the annealing process of the damages occurred in the almost same temperature range of tritium released from the neutron-irradiated Li4SiO4. This suggested that the thermal annealing processes of the damages were closely correlated with the tritium release process. It was also found that the thermal annealing consisted of two processes. The activation energies of the two processes were determined to be 0.5 eV and 0.96 eV, respectively.
