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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.”
Kazuyuki Takase, Tomoaki Kunugi, Yasushi Seki
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 1459-1464
Safety and Environment | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963154
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As one of thermofluid safety studies in ITER, buoyancy-driven exchange flow behavior through breaches of the vacuum vessel was investigated quantitatively using a preliminary LOVA (Loss Of VAcuum event) apparatus which simulated the Tokamak vacuum vessel of a fusion reactor with a small-scaled model. Helium gas and air were used as the working fluids. Experimental parameters were breach position, breach number, breach length, breach diameter, breach combination and the wall temperature of the VV. The present study showed that the relationship between the exchange rate and time depended on the magnitude of the potential energy from the ground level to the breach position and the wall temperature of the vacuum vessel. The exchange rate decreased as the breach length increased and the breach diameter decreased.