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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.”
H. Maekawa, S. Yamaguchia, C. Konno, Y. Oyama, Y. Ikeda, K. Sekiyamab, K. Kosako
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1949-1954
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-A29627
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An integral experiment was performed on a Be cylindrical assembly of 630mm in diameter and 456mm in thick. Measured items were reaction rates, in-system neutron spectra and gamma-ray heating rates. The experimental analysis was performed by the MCNP and DOT3.5 codes using the nuclear data of JENDL-3, JENDL-3PR1, ENDF/B-IV and LANL. For high threshold reactions and integral flux above 10MeV, the calculation based on JENDL-3 agrees well with the experiment, while the calculations of ENDF/B-IV and LANL underestimetes those compared to the experiment. For integral neutron flux of 0.16∼0.5 MeV, the calculation of JENDL-3 agrees well with the experiment. But in the case of ENDF/B-IV the underestimation is 20%. It can be concluded that the nuclear data of Be in JENDL-3 improves very much in accuracy from the temporary version JENDL-3PR1.