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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.”
Michael A. Butler, D. S. Ginley, James E. Schirber, Ronald I. Ewing
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 16 | Number 3 | November 1989 | Pages 388-390
Special Section Content | Cold Fusion Technical Notes | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A29131
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A search for neutrons generated during cold fusion in an electrochemical cell has been conducted using a redundant detector system with three independent channels, an overall measured efficiency of 9.2%, and a background of 10 count/h. While spurious signals indicative of neutrons occurred one channel at a time, no real neutron emission events, where a signal is observed in all three channels simultaneously, were recorded for a wide variety of electrodes and electrolytes.