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NRC nominee Nieh commits to independent safety mission
During a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing today, Ho Nieh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as a commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was urged to maintain the agency’s independence regardless of political pressure from the Trump administration.
A. Terakado, Y. Koide, M. Yoshida, T. Nakano, H. Homma, N. Oyama
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 78 | Number 2 | February 2022 | Pages 89-95
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1951529
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Heat-resistant in-vessel components, i.e., a heat sink, a front-end optics housing, and a diagnostic window have been designed in terms of heat-handling capability and thermal stress and mechanical stress by using a finite element method code. The heat sink, which is exposed to a plasma heat flux of up to 0.3 MW/m2, consists of carbon tiles, a carbon sheet, and a stainless steel heat sink with a water-cooling channel. Analysis shows that at a water flow rate of 0.9 kg/s with a water pressure of 0.5 MPa, an increase in the carbon tile temperature is mitigated below the limit related with detrimental red-hot (900°C). The front-end optics housing temperature and the diagnostic window of sapphire glass temperature are within the allowable temperature. The thermal stress and mechanical stress are less than the allowable value, respectively.