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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.”
R. L. Childs, T. A. Gabriel, R. A. Lillie
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 2 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 73-79
Technical Paper | Blanket Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST82-A20735
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Neutronics calculations have been performed to obtain tritium production and heat generation rates for the irradiation of solid tritium breeding materials in the Oak Ridge Research Reactor. Two breeder materials, Li2O and LiAlO2, were considered. Burnup calculations were performed to estimate the amount of 6Li present as a function of time. Both natural lithium and lithium depleted in 6Li were considered. This information is of interest to persons considering or planning similar experiments.