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Kentucky disburses $10M in nuclear grants
The Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority (KNEDA) recently distributed its first awards through the new Nuclear Energy Development Grant Program, which was established last year. In total, KNEDA disbursed $10 million to a variety of companies that will use the funding to support siting studies, enrichment supply-chain planning, workforce training, and curriculum development.
Dingqing Guo, Chao Chen, Zhen Wang, Jian Lin, Bing Zhang, Daochuan Ge, Zhibin Chen
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 78 | Number 2 | February 2022 | Pages 103-110
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1960089
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The fusion reactor fueled by deuterium and tritium will generate many neutron activation products, causing occupational exposure and radiation risk. The minimization of occupational radiation exposure (ORE) is one of the safety goals for fusion reactors. However, detailed designs and management schemes are still lacking for fusion reactors, and the ORE evaluations are still well simplified. In this paper, an integrated assessment approach is proposed for fusion reactors at the conceptual or detailed design stage. The core idea is to estimate the ORE by referring to the dose rates and work efforts of mature fission reactors and ITER and modifying the data of these similar systems by a proportional coefficient according to the differences of component scale, operating environment, etc. The results showed that water cooling fusion reactors will generate the highest collective dose of 2635 p-mSv/year, while the PbLi cooling ones come next with about 1684 p-mSv/year and the helium cooling ones are the least. This method will contribute to fusion reactor design, operation, and maintenance optimization at the earlier stages and provide guidance to reduce the overall potential ORE to workers.