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DNFSB’s Summers ends board tenure, extending agency’s loss of quorum
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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the independent agency responsible for ensuring that Department of Energy facilities are protective of public health and safety, announced that the board’s acting chairman, Thomas Summers, has concluded his service with the agency, having completed his second term as a board member on October 18.
Summers’ departure leaves Patricia Lee, who joined the DNFSB after being confirmed by the Senate in July 2024, as the board’s only remaining member and acting chair. Lee’s DNFSB board term ends in October 2027.
Songbo Han, Xiaojun Ni, Jian Ge, Jinxin Sun
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 80 | Number 6 | August 2024 | Pages 792-801
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2023.2259749
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The vacuum vessel (VV) of the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) was designed to withstand the variable structural loads resulting from dynamic excitation, such as seismic and plasma disruption. Modal analysis, a powerful tool, was used to evaluate the structural dynamic characteristics, such as frequency and mode shape. In addition, the CFETR VV has three different temperature conditions: room temperature (20°C), normal operation temperature (100°C), and baking temperature (200°C).
In this paper, in order to investigate the influence of such different temperature conditions to the dynamic behavior of the VV, three independent finite element analysis with the same modal analysis method were performed. According to analysis results, there are obvious thermal effects on the dynamic behavior, such as nature frequency and mode shape, among the different temperature cases for the CFETR VV. Moreover, the results show that the natural frequency for each order decreases as the temperature increases, and the mode shape of the VV also changed with temperature.