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EPA administrator Lee Zeldin talks the future of nuclear
In a recent interview on New York radio station 77 WABC, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Lee Zeldin talked with host John Catsimatidis about the near-term future of the domestic nuclear industry and the role the EPA will play in the sector.
Catsimatidis kicked off the interview by asking if the U.S. will be able to reach total energy independence. Zeldin responded by saying that decreasing energy dependence on other countries, especially adversaries, was a top priority for him and the Trump administration.
Ronald D. Boyd
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 4 | May 2015 | Pages 754-761
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-814
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The hypervapotron (HV) has been demonstrated to be a superior thermal management (TM) and high heat flux removal (HHFR) technique for fusion reactor plasma-facing component applications involving a single-side absorbed heat flux (up to between 20 and 30 MW/m2). However, the conjugate heat transfer HV flow channel (HFC) only can be optimized completely when the related HHFR controlling parameters have been identified. In an earlier work, Part I of the present effort, we identified three high heat flux-side controlling TM and HHFR dimensionless parameters and a characteristic temperature difference. In the present work, six HV wall conjugate heat transfer dimensionless primary controlling parameters and five secondary controlling parameters have been identified. The controlling parameters include the effects of (1) most geometric specifications of the array of fins; (2) variations in the HV wall thermal conductivity and heat transfer coefficient; (3) effective Biot numbers characterizing effects that include the fin array, a typical fin example, and the side walls; (4) the HFC unobstructive portion flow aspect ratio, and (5) the HFC wall aspect ratio.
