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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.”
V. Ya. Goloborod'ko, Ya. I. Kolesnichenko, V. V. Lutsenko, S. N. Reznik, V. A. Yavorskij
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 18 | Number 3 | November 1990 | Pages 429-435
Alpha Particles in Fusion Research | Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29278
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A comparative analysis of the role of various ripple-induced classical transport processes of high-energy alpha particles in International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)-like tokamaks is presented. It is shown that alpha particles escape from a plasma mainly because of collisional, rather than stochastic, diffusion. The poloidal distribution of the alpha wall load in ITER is determined.