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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.”
Y. Seki, H. Noguchi, K. Maki, H. Iida, S.J. Piet
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1831-1836
Neutronic | Proceedings of the Ninth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Oak Brook, Illinois, October 7-11, 1990) | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29610
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Inventories, release amount, and resulting site boundary dose are evaluated for the possible activation products effluents from ITER. They are activated corrosion products in the cooling water of the primary cooling system, activation of the cooling water itself, the air or inert gas surrounding penetration ducts, high voltage insulating gas for the neutral beam injector, and activated dust in the plasma chamber. The site boundary dose for the public due to the atmospheric effluents of activation products is evaluated to be ∼2 μSv/a which is well below the ITER design target of 50 μSv/a for the sum of tritium and activation products atmospheric effluents.