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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.”
Š. Miljanić, N. Jevtić, S. Pešić, M. Ninković, D. Nikolić, M. Josipović, Lj. Petkovska, S. Bačić, T. Šutej, S. Matić
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 18 | Number 2 | September 1990 | Pages 340-346
Technical Notes on Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29305
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An attempt was made to replicate electrochemical and gas-load cold fusion neutron counts. The best results for electrolysis were counts of 2.5 times background for 45 min. The cold fusion rate was found to be <2.09 × 10−22 fusion/(d-d)·s−1. For the gas-load method, an effect was seen twice, with neutron counts on the order of 3 to 4 times background over 1.5 h. The search for excess tritium in the heavy water from the electrolytic cells proved negative. However, mass spectroscopy of the D2 gas before and after the gas-load experiments indicated a change in the mass 3 to mass 2 ratio from 0.53 to 1.66.