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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.”
H. Madarameb, K. Taghavi, M.S. Tillack
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 264-269
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-A40055
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The MHD pressure drop in the second wall orifice which connects the first wall cooling channel and the header in one of the BCSS blankets is discussed. Though the second wall is thin, the pressure drop in the orifice can be very large because of leakage current effects. If eddy currents leak and do not have to pass through thin walls, the resistivity of the current path may be low and the current intensity may be high, which induces a high pressure drop. The presence of leakage current greatly affects the MHD pressure drop in fusion reactor blankets.