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DOE issues new NEPA rule and procedures—and accelerates DOME reactor testing
Meeting a deadline set in President Trump’s May 23 executive order “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy,” the DOE on June 30 updated information on its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rulemaking and implementation procedures and published on its website an interim final rule that rescinds existing regulations alongside new implementing procedures.
Jyoti Pandey, Bhawna Pandey, H. M. Agrawal, P. V. Subhash, S. Vala, Akhil Sai Aiyyala, Rajnikant Makwana, S. V. Suryanarayana
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 73 | Number 4 | May 2018 | Pages 545-551
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1397485
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
For fusion application, there is a high demand for nuclear data for long-lived radionuclides produced in a neutron environment. Cobolt-60 (t1/2 = 5.3 years) is one of the radionuclides produced in a large amount inside the fusion reactor via different pathways. In this context, the excitation function of 60Co(n, p) and 60Co(n, α) reaction from threshold to 20 MeV has been calculated using TALYS-1.6 in the framework of the Hauser Feshbach statistical model along with preequilibrium effects. Outgoing (proton and alpha) particle energy spectra (dσ/dEp, dσ/dEα) and double-differential cross section (d2σ/dE dΩ) has also been estimated at 14 MeV incident neutron energy. Optimized input parameters used during the model calculation were determined by fitting the (n, p) and (n, α) cross sections to the experimental data for the adjacent stable nuclide 59Co. The activation analysis has also been carried out for 1 kg of stainless steel (SS316) using FISPACT-2007.