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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.
E. A. Mogahed, L. El-Guebaly, A. Abdou, P. Wilson, D. Henderson, ARIES Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 462-466
Advanced Designs | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963279
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Loss of coolant accident (LOCA) and loss of flow accident (LOFA) analysis is performed for ARIES-AT, an advanced fusion power plant design (1000 MWe). ARIES-AT employs a high performance, high temperature blanket system. It uses the high temperature SiC/SiC for structural material and LiPb for coolant-breeder. Due to the large difference between the time scale of plasma shutdown and the coolant or power loss, it is assumed that the plasma is immediately quenched at the onset of the LOCA/LOFA and the chamber components' temperature begins to rise due to the decay heat generated. A 2-D transient finite element model is established to examine the thermal behavior of the in-vessel components to determine the maximum temperature reached, the time, and duration of the peak. The model is axisymmetric in (r-z) around the reactor axis to show the details of temperature distribution in the vertical direction. The vacuum vessel is assumed adiabatic in the inboard side and radiates to the maintenance port located on the outboard side. The maximum temperature of steel in the reactor is about (600 °C - 700°C) after about 4 days from the onset of the accident. The highest temperature in the reactor is in the divertor region and it reaches ≈1050°C after about 2-3 hours. The analysis indicates that the reactor does not need any special scheme for decay heat removal.