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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.”
Ph. Labbe, L. Giancarli, L. Baraer, P. Leroy, J. Mercier, Y. Severi, J. Quintric-Bossy
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1006-1011
Blanket Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29474
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Within the framework of the European DEMO blanket study programme, CEA and the JRC of ISPRA develop a water cooled lithium-lead blanket concept. Considering the low breeding coverage ratio of the DEMO-1 reactor configuration currently specified in the E-C programme, the use of beryllium was envisaged in order to reach the tritium self-sufficiency which corresponds to an equivalent tridimensional Tritium Breeding Ratio (TBR) above 1.05. This beryllium is either directly immersed in the liquid metal (Pb-17Li) or completely separated from it.
