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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.”
Hans-Dieter Falter, Dragoslav Ciric, Andrea Celentano, Christopher M. Ibbott, Michael J. Watson, Masanori Araki, Satoshi Suzuki, Kazuyoshi Sato
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 29 | Number 4 | July 1996 | Pages 571-583
Technical Paper | Divertor System | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A30699
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Two vapotrons from the Joint European Torus (JET) actively cooled divertor design have been fitted by the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute with unidirectional high-conductivity carbon-fiber-composite tiles and have been tested in the JET Neutral Beam Test Bed. The test section showed excellent uniformity and accepted power densities up to 30 MW/m2 for equilibrium pulses. The surface temperature was 1100°C at 20 MW/m2. One tile detached at a power density of 25 MW/m2. A total of just under 300 pulses at power densities mostly between 20 and 30 MW/m2 have been fired onto the test sections without additional failure. The hydraulic parameters were as follows: water inlet temperature, 15 to 20°C; average water pressure in the component, 0.4 and 0.69 MPa; flow velocity, 6.9 and 7.5 m/s.