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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.”
T. Yamanishi, H. Yoshida, S. Hirata, T. Naito, Y. Naruse, R. H. Sherman, J. R. Bartlit, K. M. Gruetzmacher, J. L. Anderson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 14 | Number 2 | September 1988 | Pages 489-494
Tritium Processing | Proceedings of the Third Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion and Isotopic Applications (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 1-6, 1988) | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25180
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Cryogenic distillation experiments were performed at TSTA with H-D-T system by using a single column and a two-column cascade. In the single column experiment, fundamental engineering data such as the liquid holdup and the HETP were measured under a variety of operational conditions. The liquid holdup in the packed section was about 10∼15% of its superficial volume. The HETP values were from 4 to 6 cm, and increased slightly with the vapor velocity. The reflux ratio had no effect on the HETP under the condition that the vapor velocity was almost constant. For the two-column experiment, dynamic behavior of the cascade was observed.