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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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 707-711
Materials Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A22942
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Materials for potential use in tokamak first wall high current connectors were selected and tested under conditions that might be encountered in tokamak devices. Disk-shaped specimens of promising metal mixtures were subjected to current densities approaching 23 kA/cm2 (150 kA/in2) in 8 ms pulses, closing pressures ranging from .07 to 2.1 MPa (10 to 300 psi), and a vacuum of 1.3 × 10−1 Pa (10−3 Torr). Contact welding occurred at moderate to low pressure and moderate currents. The resulting welds were very weak, failing at 18–31 N (4–7 lb) in shear.