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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.”
Liu Cheng-An, Wang Tian-Long, Lu Xun
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 876-881
Advanced Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29455
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With the Tokamak driver parameters that could be chieved round about 2000 in the world, neutronics studies and analyses have been performed to the blanket configurtion and materials and self-shielding effect of group cross section for the commercial Tokamak fusion-fission hybrid reactor. The main concern of the study has been the assessment of the global tritium breeding ratio, the global Pu239 breeding ratio and determinmatton of the total power production. The results show that it's possible to produce 4 tons of Pu239 per year and net electric output of one GWe, that the self-shielding effect is not important for the fast fission blanket.