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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.
D. B. Harris, J. H. Pendergrass
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1220-1225
Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor Technology | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39934
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Simple expressions for the cost and efficiency of repetitively-pulsed angularly multiplexed KrF laser fusion drivers have been developed for commercial-applications studies. These simple expressions summarize estimates obtained from detailed cost/performance studies incorporating recent results of ongoing physics, design, and cost studies. Contributions of KrF laser capital charges and O&M costs to total levelized constant-dollar (1984) unit ICF power generation cost are estimated as a function of plant size and driver pulse energy using a published gain for short-wavelength lasers and representative values of plant parameters.
