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DOE issues new NEPA rule and procedures—and accelerates DOME reactor testing
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.
Mehrdad Boroushaki, Mohammad B. Ghofrani, Caro Lucas
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 155 | Number 1 | January 2007 | Pages 119-130
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE07-A2650
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In this paper, we describe an innovative method to model and solve spatio-temporal behavior of nuclear reactor cores via three-dimensional multilayer cellular neural networks. This method uses electrical elements and the existing duality between neutronic and thermal-hydraulic parameters of nuclear reactors. The relevant electrical circuit can be simulated by existing professional electrical circuit software. This research goes beyond our previous efforts to use a neural computing approach in the nuclear field. Modeling and solving simple nuclear reactor kinetic equations is now expanded to a complete dynamic calculation, integrating the core thermal-hydraulic models and the relevant feedback effects, in a heterogeneous reactor core.