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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.”
P. A. Finn, E. H. Van Deventer
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 14 | Number 2 | September 1988 | Pages 783-790
Tritium Properties and Interactions with Material | 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-A25230
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The heterogeneous reaction between oxygen/helium gas, tritium and stainless steel was studied at the back surface of a stainless steel tube. The yield of tritiated water was determined as a function of oxygen concentration, tritium concentration, protium concentration, flow rate, and temperature. This report describes the results for two sets of runs done at 550°C with and without 15 ppm protium in the oxygen/helium gas. At oxygen concentrations of 40 ppm, the presence of excess protium in the oxygen/ helium produced a reduced yield of tritiated water. At oxygen concentrations >1000 ppm, the two yields were equivalent, 98%.