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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.”
A. E. Pontau, M. E. Malinowski A. A. Ver Berkmoes, S. E. Guthrie, D. M. Goebel, G. A. Campbell, R. W. Conn, J. B. Whitley, R. D. Watson, W. B. Gauster, B. L. Doyle, K. H. Dippel, K. H. Finken, G. Fuchs
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 6 | Number 2 | September 1984 | Pages 384-392
Technical Paper | Selected papers from the Ninth International Vacuum Congress and the Fifth International Conference on Solid Surfaces (Madrid, Spain, September 26-October 1, 1983) | doi.org/10.13182/FST84-A23210
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A collaborative program is underway to field a comprehensive pump limiter experimental program on TEXTOR: Advanced Limiter Test-I (ALT-I). Either of two interchangeable limiter modules may be attached to an insertion/rotation mechanism to direct particles to the ∼1 m3 pumping chamber. Pumping is provided primarily by a solid getter assembly at ∼20,000 1/sec. Variation of geometric dimensions and gas puffing in the modules will allow the study of plasma and neutral interaction in differing recycle regimes. Multiple diagnostic systems are incorporated into the pump limiter design for use in conjunction with TEXTOR plasma diagnostics. Initial experiments are scheduled for December 1983.