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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.”
D.C. Schluderberg, J.H. Huang, L. Pong, D.K. Sze
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 1509-1513
Power Conversion, Instrumentation, and Control | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A23070
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A double-walled steam generator is used in the fusion power cycle to replace the intermediate loop. This will save the cost associated with a complicated system and the associated temperature degradation. The mechanical design of the steam generator is similar to that proposed for LMFBR application. The heat transfer and tritium diffusion calculations are performed. The double-walled steam generator provides a tritium diffusion barrier factor > 105 while increasing the surface area by 25% compared to a singlewalled steam generator.