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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.”
E. A. Mogahed, ARIES Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 1079-1083
Fusion Power Reactors (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963757
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Loss of coolant accident (LOCA) analysis is performed for ARIES-ST. ARIES-ST is a fusion power plant design based on the spherical tokamak concept to serve as a commercial power plant. It is assumed that the plasma is immediately quenched at the onset of the LOCA and the chamber components begin to increase in temperature due to the afterheat generated. This analysis examines the thermal behavior of the in-vessel components to determine the maximum temperature reached and addresses various schemes of afterheat removal. The thermal behavior of the reactor following a LOCA is simulated using a transient two-dimensional finite element model.