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Meeting a deadline set in President Trump’s May 23 executive order “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy,” the DOE on June 30 updated information on its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rulemaking and implementation procedures and published on its website an interim final rule that rescinds existing regulations alongside new implementing procedures.
Yukio Oyama, Mahmoud Z. Youssef, Mohamed A. Abdou
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1484-1490
Blanket Neutronic | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39976
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Neutronics tests in a fusion engineering test device will be required to verify the neutronics prediction capabilities (calculational methods and data base). This paper presents the requirements related to the neutronics test. These requirements include those associated with the operational environment (e.g., wall load, fluence, plasma burn time, etc.) and the ones related to the test module configuration (geometrical arrangements, minimum size for meaningful test information, boundary conditions, etc.). Both experimental consideration and neutronic analyses were carried out to quantify these conditions.