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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.”
M. Atarashi-Andoh, H. Amano, T. Takahashi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 470-473
Environment | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22633
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
ETDOSE is a simple computer code for calculating distribution patterns of tritium in the environment for acute and chronic releases of HT and HTO. It calculates tritium concentrations in air, soil, plant free water and plant organic material, and estimates dose impacts from inhalation of air and ingestion of food. ETDOSE includes two different models for calculating HTO re-emission from the soil surface for a chronic tritium release. These two models were tested in the IAEA's model validation program BIOMASS (BIOsphere Modeling and ASSessment methods)1.
