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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.”
Hidetaka Taira, Saburo Toda, Kazuhisa Yuki
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 930-933
Divertor and Plasma-Facing Components | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963359
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A new concept of a liquid wall divertor using fluid mixing effect is suggested. It is composed of two flows. One is main flow and the other is assistant inclined flow.
It is confirmed that by mixing effect of the assistant flow toward the main flow, the heated surface of main flow is dragged into the inside of the main flow and that, the surface flow velocity increases as that of assistant flow becomes larger. In addition, the larger velocity of assistant flow and faster main flow is effective to decrease the temperature of the surface flow.