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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.
P. Azzoni, V. Benzi, A. Salomoni, P. L. Chiodi, C. Giuliani, R. Marvasi, S. Guardini, S. Tassan
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 76 | Number 1 | October 1980 | Pages 70-77
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE80-A19297
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Experimental determinations of capture rates of structural materials used in fast breeder reactors, such as iron, chromium, nickel, and stainless steel, normalized to the 235U fission rate, were performed. The aim of these experiments was to check structural material multigroup cross-section libraries in the 1- to 100-keV range, where substantial discrepancies among various cross-section evaluations are not yet resolved. The experiments were carried out in an ARGONAUT-type RB-2 reactor, using the Null Reactivity Oscillation method, on test media composed of quasi-homogeneous loose particle mixtures. Comparisons were carried out with corresponding calculated values, showing a trend of these values to overestimate the measured quantities. Furthermore, evaluations of and of of 235U were made in the same intermediate spectrum. These results are not in disagreement with the indications of recent 235U cross-section measurements as far as the σc/σf of 235U is concerned.
