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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.”
Myeun Kwon, Joosik Bak, Gyung Soo Lee, KSTAR Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 42 | Number 1 | July 2002 | Pages 167-177
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A225
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The Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) Project mission aims at steady-state operation and "advanced tokamak" physics. Substantial progress in engineering has been made on the superconducting magnets, vacuum vessel, cryostat, plasma-facing components, and power supplies. All the major components such as the vacuum vessel, magnet systems, cryostat, and thermal shields are in the final stage of engineering design and prototype manufacturing with involvement of industrial companies. The new KSTAR experimental building is near completion, and the cryogenic system, the deionized water-cooling system, and the main power systems have been designed. The construction, fabrication, and assembly of the whole facility is underway for completion in the year 2005.