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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.”
Jungchung Jung, John V. Foley
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 2 | September 1985 | Pages 1998-2009
Technical Paper | Blanket Comparison and Selection Study | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A24575
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Three-dimensional, tritium breeding, and energy multiplication analyses were performed for nine tandem mirror reactor (TMR) designs and seven tokamak reactor designs that had evolved as the “rank-1” concept from the latest Blanket Comparison and Selection Study. These designs include a variety of combinations of candidate breeder, coolant, and structural materials that seem most promising for the respective TMR/tokamak concept application. The analysis was performed using a single consistent computational technique, i.e., a continuous energy Monte Carlo transport method based on MCNP with the associated cross-section libraries based on the latest ENDF/B-V data. Through a comparative study of those 16 candidate blanket designs, an attempt is made to rank them from a standpoint of the neutronic blanket performance.