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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.”
J. S. Watson, W. R. Grimes, D. E. Brashears
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 2 | September 1985 | Pages 2113-2120
Blanket and Process Engineering | Proceedings of the Second National Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion and Isotopic Applications (Dayton, Ohio, April 30 to May 2, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A24596
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A conceptual flowsheet was prepared for continuous processing of molten salt used as the blanket material for breeding tritium and fissile material (233U) in a fusion/fission hybrid reactor. The salt, which has a melting point of ∼530°C, was 70 mol % LiF, 12 mol % BeF2, and 18 mol % ThF4. The hybrid reactor generates 3000 MWe, and the blanket contains 65 m3 of the breeding salt.