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DOE announces NEPA exclusion for advanced reactors
The Department of Energy has announced that it is establishing a categorical exclusion for the application of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) procedures to the authorization, siting, construction, operation, reauthorization, and decommissioning of advanced nuclear reactors.
According to the DOE, this significant change, which goes into effect today, “is based on the experience of DOE and other federal agencies, current technologies, regulatory requirements, and accepted industry practice.”
B. J. Kozioziemski, Randall L. McEachern, R. A. London, D. N. Bittner
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 296-302
Technical Paper | Fourteenth Target Fabrication Specialists' Meeting | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A17915
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We report results of modeling and experiments on infrared heated deuterium-hydride (HD) layers in hohlraums. A 2 mm diameter, 40 μm thick shell with 100–400 μm thick HD ice inside a NIF scale gold hohlraum is heated by pumping the HD vibrational-rotational bands. Models indicate control of the lowmode layer shape by adjusting the infrared distribution along the hohlraum walls. We have experimentally demonstrated control of the layer symmetry perpendicular to the hohlraum axis.
