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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.”
L. John Perkins, Steven A. Freije, William S. Neef
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 1407-1412
Magnet Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A23053
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The engineering design of two high-power steadystate ECRH injection systems is presented for the MARS tandem mirror reactor. With a design power of 57 MW, System I is comprised of 1 MW cavity-mode gyrotrons coupled to a novel quasioptical launching system for the combination and transmission of the ECRH power to the plasma. System II has a design power of 84 MW and comprises 2.5 MW quasi-optical gyrotron units coupled to a quasi-optical launching system similar in principle to System I but displaying minimal space requirements. Potential operating conditions, parameters and constraints are presented for multi-MW gyrotrons and quasi-optical launching systems, and key ECRH development and technology needs for commercial tandem mirror reactors are defined.