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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.”
David C. Baxter, Nelson Byrne
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 3 | Number 2 | March 1983 | Pages 236-243
Technical Paper | Special Section Content | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A20847
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The physics of deuterium-fueled tokamak reactors and a transport code, DDMAK, developed to model them are described. Two examples of work done with this code are presented. In the first, the possible temperature profile broadening effect of synchrotron radiation is examined quantitatively and found small. The second example is a study of the importance of nuclear elastic scattering (NES) in the context of a deuterium-deuterium reactor plasma. Although there are some differences in the DDMAK results due to NES, the overall effect is small. Still the calculational methods may be important for future, more demanding cases.