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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.”
E. B. Hooper, Jr., Richard H. Bulmer, Larry L. Higgins
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 13 | Number 3 | March 1988 | Pages 503-509
Technical Paper | Alpha-Particle Workshop / Magnet System | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25128
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Magnet alignment in the Mirror Fusion Test Facility-B (MFTF-B) tandem mirror has been measured by electron beams propagated along the axis. A least-squares fit to the data has been obtained by use of singular-value decomposition techniques. This fit determines the positions of the magnets that sensitively effect displacements of the field lines from alignment and, thus, the net geodesic curvature that drives radial transport. The magnets are determined to be aligned accurately enough that the MFTF-B trim coils can correct the field errors and reduce the neoclassical radial transport to an acceptable value.