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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.”
T.Tanifuji, S. Jitsukawa, S.Nasu, A.Moon, K.Mori, S.Nishikawa, M.Yamanaka, Y.Izawa
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 954-957
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-A22726
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We investigated tritium (T) release behavior from silica glass. The specimens were 8 kinds of commercially available silica glass. T was injected by the 6Li (n,α)T reaction of sintered pellets of lithium oxide (Li2O) into the silica glass with thermal neutrons in JRR-2 (VT-8) up to 5 × 1018 neutrons/cm2 at ambient temperature (about 350 K). After irradiation, the Li2O pellets were removed from the silica glass, and T release from the silica glass was measured in a flow of hydrogen (H2) or ammonia (NH3) sweep gas at atmospheric pressure at a constant heating rate of 2 K/min between 675 K and 1375 K with a proportional counter. In the case of H2 sweep gas, a maximum tritium release rate was observed around 1023 K, while in the case of NH3 sweep gas, two peaks around 1023 K and around 1123 K or a peak around 1123 K with a shoulder were obserbed. After the experiments of T release, FT-IR spectra showed a decrease of SiOH bands at 3650 cm−1. On the other hand, no changes in intensities at 2250 cm−1 due to SiH were observed for both samples before and after T release.