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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.
M. Harb, A. Davis, P. P. H. Wilson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 79 | Number 1 | January 2023 | Pages 1-12
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2022.2115831
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In fusion energy systems, part of the design effort is dedicated to the assessment of the shutdown dose rate (SDR) due to the decay photons that will be emitted from activated components. Monte Carlo transport codes are often used to obtain the neutron flux distribution in the problem domain. The neutron flux distribution is used in the rigorous 2-step (R2S) workflow to obtain the photon emission density distribution of decaying radionuclides. The photon emission density is then used as an input for a dedicated photon transport step to calculate the SDR. In this paper, the uncertainty of the decay gamma source due to the uncertainty of the neutron flux distribution in the R2S workflow is investigated. A scheme is developed to estimate the uncertainty of the decay gamma source, building on the concept of groupwise transmutation and using standard error propagation techniques. The applicability of the newly developed scheme is then demonstrated on one of the conceptual designs of the fusion nuclear science facility.