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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.
K. Sugiyama, K. Kanda, S. Iwasaki, M. Nakazawa, H. Hashikura, T. Iguchi, H. Sekimoto, S. Itoh, K. Sumita, A. Takahashi, J. Yamamoto
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1491-1496
Blanket Neutronic | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39977
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A benchmark experiment on tritium breeding in a lithium sphere of 120-cm diameter has been done using the intense 14-MeV neutron source OKTAVIAN at Osaka University. Radial measurement data on 6Li and 7Li tritium production rates and several activation rates inside the lithium sphere agreed with 1-D transport NITRAN and ANISN calculations to within about 20%. For a more detailed comparison, further corrections are thought to be necessary. The anisotropies of intensity and energy on neutron emission with respect to the deuteron beam axis, and scattering effects of source neutrons by the target assembly must be considered.
