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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. Kakuta, S. Hirata, S. Mori, S. Konishi, Y. Kawamura, M. Nishi, Y. Ohara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 1069-1073
Blanket Material and Process | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22748
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In this design work, a combination of the hydrogen pumps in charge of the function of hydrogen isotopes recovery and the oxygen pump was adopted to the blanket tritium recovery system for the prototype fusion reactor designed by Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI). The main functions of this system are described below. 1) Transport of tritium with helium purge gas: tritium released from ceramic breeding material in the blanket is transported to the tritium recovery system by the helium purge gas which contains a small amount of hydrogen gas. 2) Steam electrolysis and removal of oxygen gas: the oxygen pump with electrolyte of oxygen ionic conductors electrolyzes the steam (H2O and HTO) contained in the puige gas into hydrogen isotopes and oxygen, and simultaneously removes impurity of oxygen by electrical membrane permeation. 3) Recovery of hydrogen isotopes: the hydrogen pump with electrolyte of protonic conductors electrically recovers the pure hydrogen isotopes (HT and H2) from the purge gas. Based on the experimental data obtained by feasibility study and the present design effort, it was revealed that the simple and continuous tritium recovery system for gaseous stream is possible and attractive for fusion power reactors.