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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.”
Xiang M. Chen, Per F. Peterson, Michael T. Tobin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 26 | Number 3 | November 1994 | Pages 814-818
National Ignition Facility | Proceedings of the Eleventh Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy New Orleans, Louisiana June 19-23, 1994 | doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A40255
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The tests in the chamber of National Ignition Facility will involve complex multi-dimensional dynamics phenomena. Many safety concerns relate to the ablation of the chamber material and the re-condensation of it. The x-ray induced ablation can vaporize surfaces of internal structures. The deposition of the ablated mass to the laser optics can cause significant damage to the laser optics. This study presents a typical analysis of the ablation from the target positioner in the NIF chamber with the TSUNAMI two-dimensional gas dynamics code. Results reveal that the geometry of target positioner has strong influence to the vapor mass amount and distribution over the chamber wall. The analysis done here shows that it is possible to perform parametric study for different NIF chamber design configurations.