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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.”
E. Stern, R. L. Fuller, A. J. Jarabak, M. Sabado
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 906-911
Magnet Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A22975
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A multi-year development and manufacturing effort was recently completed with the shipment of the last toroidal field (TF) coil for the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) project. This manufacturing effort required the development and implementation of complex manufacturing processes and controls to assure TF coil integrity. This paper describes the manufacturing processes, tests and controls which were necessary to produce the 4.26 m OD, 22680 Kg copper TF coils for the TFTR.