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NEPA review changes coming under NRC proposed rule
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing changes to its environmental review regulations under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that agency officials call the most significant in decades.
The proposed rule—published in the Federal Register on Tuesday—streamlines 10 CFR Part 51 and calls for no longer requiring draft environmental impact statements (EIS), adding new categorical exclusions that exempt licensing actions from NEPA review, and reducing the regulatory burden in its environmental reviews, among other things. The NRC will accept public comments on the proposed rulemaking until August 21, with plans to hold a public hearing during the comment period.
R. C. Haight, D. W. Kneff, B. M. Oliver, L. R. Greenwood, H. Vonach
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 124 | Number 2 | October 1996 | Pages 219-227
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A28573
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Helium production cross sections for the elements iron, nickel, and copper and for the isotopes 56Fe, S8Ni, 60Ni, and 61Nifor 9.85-MeV neutrons have been measured by irradiation with an intense, quasi-monoenergetic neutron source followed by helium analysis with isotope dilution gas mass spectrometry. The results are in fair agreement with (n,α) cross sections measured by alpha-particle detection and integration over the alpha-particle energies and angular distributions.