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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.”
Patrick L. Colestock
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 7 | Number 2 | March 1985 | Pages 217-235
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A24540
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An overview of the current status of radio-frequency (rf) heating and current drive applications in tokamaks is given. The use of ion cyclotron and electron cyclotron waves for heating and lower hybrid waves for both heating and current drive is reviewed based on current experimental results. Based on the progress in rf techniques demonstrated by these results, several rf methods have been incorporated into the International Tokamak Reactor (INTOR) design. The combined use of these systems in INTOR is described.