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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.”
C.E. Wagner, D. Berwald, G. Listvinsky
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 1117-1122
Nuclear Technology Experiments and Facilities | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24882
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We present a Fusion Engineering Research Facility Design based upon the Long Pulse Test Experiment (LITE) Concept1. This design features component upgrades of the LITE design to allow long pulse, high fluence operation, and to provide access for engineering test ports. This facility could perform an engineering mission nearly as ambitious as INTOR2 at less than half the projected life-cycle operating costs.