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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.”
Sagara Akio, Yamanishi Hirokuni, Uda Tatsuhiko, Motojima Osamu, Kunugi Tomoaki, Matsumoto Youji, Wu Yican, Matsui Hideki, Takahasi Shintaro, Yamamoto Takuya, Toda Saburo, Mitarai Osamu, Satake Shin-Ichi, Terai Takayuki, Tanaka Satoru, Fukada Satoshi, Nishikawa Masabumi, Shimizu Akihiko, Yoshida Naoaki
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 753-757
Chamber Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963329
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The self-cooling molten-salt Flibe blanket of FFHR is numerically analyzed, resulting the optimum first wall to be as thin as 5mm and the heat flux up to 0.25MW/m2 to be feasible with adopting V-4Cr-4Ti as the structural material. An alternative concept of free surface using a capillary force is shown to be feasible even in helical systems, where a spiral flow is formed and drastically enhances the heat transfer efficiency. The nuclear property of Flibe blanket is modified with increasing Be amount and adopting carbon reflector, resulting the local TBR of 1.3. As an optional technique, 50% enrichment of Li-6 gives the maximum TBR of 1.4.