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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.”
Hitoshi Hanada, Yuji Hatano, Kanetsugu Isobe, Kan Sakamoto, Masayasu Sugisaki
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 915-918
Material Interaction and Permeation | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22718
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The hydrogen distribution in the oxidized Zircaloy-2 was related to its microsturcuture by tritium microautoradiography based on a cathodic tritium charging method. It was found out that hydrogen atoms were concentrated in the intermetallic precipitates such as Zr(Fe,Cr)2 and Zr2(Fe,Ni) existing in the oxide film, and on the grain boundary of zirconium matrix. It was also found out that hydrogen atoms were scarcely present in the thin metallic region adjacent to the oxide layer, the thickness of which was about 10–15 µm.