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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 9 | Number 2 | March 1986 | Pages 362-365
Technical Note | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24722
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The possibility of catalyzed nuclear fusion occurring in bound systems where the nonnuclear constituent is some heavy lepton other than muon, for example, τ, is investigated. Improved techniques for calculating fusion rates without adiabatic approximation in leptomolecules are also discussed. Furthermore, the possibility of fusion occurring in exotic systems comprised of nuclei and monopoles is explored.