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DOE announces NEPA exclusion for advanced reactors
The Department of Energy has announced that it is establishing a categorical exclusion for the application of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) procedures to the authorization, siting, construction, operation, reauthorization, and decommissioning of advanced nuclear reactors.
According to the DOE, this significant change, which goes into effect today, “is based on the experience of DOE and other federal agencies, current technologies, regulatory requirements, and accepted industry practice.”
G. A. Deis, P. Y. Hsu, K. D. Watts, E. C. Welch
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 791-796
Blanket and First Wall Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A22957
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The PE-II Solid Breeder Concept Integral Simulation Test is designed to simulate (by way of nonnuclear heating) the thermal-hydraulic/thermomechanical operating characteristics of a water-cooled, Li2O fusion reactor blanket. The test piece consists of a central coolant tube surrounded by a cylinder of solid breeder material. This test piece, which simulates a unit cell of a blanket, is then subjected to an external heat flux and a purge flow of helium at carefully controlled conditions. Instrumentation provides information on temperature profiles, moisture levels, and purge flow conditions. Pretest thermal/stress analysis of this experiment indicates that it can provide an accurate simulation of actual conditions in a prototypical fusion reactor blanket.