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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.”
Satoshi Fukada, Samsun-Baharin Mohamad, Hiroshi Fujiwara, Masabumi Nishikawa
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 1082-1086
Isotope Separation | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22750
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Chromatographic separation of hydrogen isotopes, protium and deuterium, was carried out experimentally using a four-column Pd bed system. The system was operated under the conditions of atmospheric hydrogen pressure and swing of column temperature of 303 K to 473 K. Maximum deuterium enrichment ratio defined as the ratio of the deuterium concentration in product to that in feed was around 100 independent of the deuterium concentration. The deuterium recovery ratio was more than 0.5. Effluent curves were analyzed by the numerical simulation by the plate model. Close agreement was obtained between experiment and analysis. High enrichment of deuterium was also successfully achieved by frontal chromatography using a comparatively large column.