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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.”
Lali Chatterjee, V. P. Gautam
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 7 | Number 3 | May 1985 | Pages 423-425
Technical Note | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A24561
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Muon catalyzed fusion represents a potential long-term approach to fusion power. The sensitivity of the fusion properties of muomolecules to the choice of wave function describing the system is studied. The need for an improved understanding of the problem and correct evaluation of nonadiabatic effects is stressed, and the discrepancy between fusion rates from Born-Oppenheimer- and Hylleraas-type wave functions is pointed out.