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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.”
K. Miya , T. Rizawa , K. Someya, A. Minato, T. Tone
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 233-238
Blanket and First-Wall Engineering | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40050
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Ferritic stainless steel(HT-9) is a prospective candidate for a first wall material of a fusion reactor. It experiences magnetic stress due to magnetization in magnetic field. A ferromagnetic cantilever of mild steel was provided to carry out a test on magnetomechanical behavior and to compare with theoretical prediction. The theoretical prediction was made for an infinitely wide beam plate and magnetic stiffness was taken into account. Field distribution of the finite specimen is very different from one of an infinite specimen. It is made clear that deformation is proportional to the squared field for smaller applied field while linear with the field for larger one.