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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.”
Takanori Nagasaki, Satoshi Konishi, Hiroji Katsuta, Yuji Naruse
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 9 | Number 3 | May 1986 | Pages 506-509
Technical Note | Tritium System | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24739
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An intermetallic compound of zirconium-cobalt was prepared, and the pressure-composition isotherms for the ZrCo-H system were measured in the pressure range from 10 Pa (0.1 Torr) to ∼130 kPa (1000 Torr) and in the temperature range from 130 to 400°C. The equilibrium hydrogen pressures of plateaus under the experimental conditions were one or two orders of magnitude higher than that of a uranium-hydrogen system. A pronounced hysteresis between hydrogenating isotherms and dehydrogenating ones was observed. Based on the results, ZrCo is proposed as a substitute for uranium for the purpose of recovering, storing, and supplying gaseous tritium.