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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.”
D.-K. Sze, J. Jung, E. T. Cheng
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 1197-1204
Environment and Safety | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24893
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The inherent safety aspect of Tokamark Power System Studies (TPSS) reactor blankets has been investigated. The idea is to design the blanket so safe that cost savings can be realized such as through non-nuclear grading construction. If the blanket materials are carefully selected, inherent safety is feasible for fusion reactor blankets up to 5–10 MW/m2 neutron wall loading.
