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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.Nakamichi, H.Kawamura, T.Teratani
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 939-942
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-A22723
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The fabrication technique of Cr2O3-SiO2 coating as a tritium permeation barrier had been developed by chemical densified coating method. However, Cr2C3-SiO2 coating had open pores in the coating. For filling open pores, the densification treatment by CrPO4 was considered. From result of the deuterium permeation test, Permeation Reduction Factor (PRF) of SS316 with Cr2O3-SiO2 including CrPO4 coating reached about 1,000.
