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NRC wants input on Hermes 2 test reactor construction permit
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is seeking input on its draft environmental assessment and draft finding of no significant impact for Kairos Power’s application to build the Hermes 2 test reactor facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
J. K. Garner, J. Blanchard, G. Orient, K. Taghavi, M. Tillack, M. Youssef, K. Shin,b, H. Madaramec
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 962-967
Blanket and First-Wall Engineering | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40158
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A preliminary conceptual design was made of a test module for testing the BCSS lithium cooled, vanadium structure blanket concept in a tandem mirror fusion test reactor. The test module is intended to run at the correct stresses and temperatures of a segment of the blanket, while operating at reduced neutron wall loadings. Although this approach ties the effort to a single design and its issues, it tends to reveal interactions that might not be apparent if a more general approach were taken, and can lead to some useful general conclusions.