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NRC to add new items to categorical exclusions list
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has identified five categories of action to add to its list of categorical exclusions to reduce its documentation work under National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) procedures.
These revisions are included in the final rule, “Categorical exclusions from environmental review,” which was published in the Federal Register on March 30. The final rule will become effective on April 29.
Hiroyuki Nakaharai, Takahiro Chuman, Takehiko Yokomine, Shinji Ebara, Akihiko Shimizu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 44 | Number 2 | September 2003 | Pages 364-368
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Tritium and Safety and Environment | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A361
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The safety analysis on LOVA is among the last task left in ITER R&D. On the assumption of LOVA after ICE, it is corollary that activated dusts are under wet condition. The transport behavior of dust under the wet condition is not known well in comparison with dry case even in the conventional engineering systems. Moreover, in the case of LOVA after ICE a shock wave is assumed to generate in the vacuum vessel. The purpose of this experimental study is to investigate the dust behavior under the wet condition including the interaction between shock wave and dust by supposition of LOVA. In this experiment, entrainment ratio and adhesion ratio of dust are measured and discussed. Thereby we understood the behavior of dust in the wet condition and report it.