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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.”
E. M. Fearon, R. T. Tsugawa, P. C. Souers, J. D. Polla, J. L. Hunta
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 2 | September 1985 | Pages 2239-2244
Research and Development | 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-A24615
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An ultraviolet absorption feature has been seen in solid deuterium-tritium and hydrogen-tritium at a sensor temperature of 5 K. The peak occurs at 3.6 eV and is about 1.5 eV wide. It disappears when the temperature is raised to about 10 K but reappears upon cooling and is, therefore, radiation induced. At 5 K, the absorption line forms on a time scale of minutes and appears to represent part-per-million levels of electron-mass defects. The suggested model is that of a trapped electron, where the absorption line is the ground state-to-the-conduction band transition. A marked isotope effect is seen between D-T and H-T.