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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.”
Roger O. Bangerter
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 13 | Number 2 | February 1988 | Pages 348-355
Technical Paper | Heavy-Ion Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25109
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The cost of an accelerator depends strongly on the requirements that it must satisfy to drive a target. Therefore, an important part of the Heavy-Ion Fusion Systems Assessment (HIFSA) Project has been a search for, and an assessment of, target concepts that might relax the accelerator requirements. This paper outlines the considerations that have guided the search for improved targets and gives a brief description of the various concepts that have been studied. Not all of the target concepts were sufficiently developed for inclusion in the HIFSA study and are discussed here for completeness. Recent work has led to new estimates of the gain of radiatively driven targets. This work was not completed in time for the HIFSA study, but is included in this paper. Although the new results differ substantially from the base case used in the study, a systems study performed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory shows that the new results increase the cost of electricity by slightly less than 10%.