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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.”
Makoto Okamoto, Yuji Naruse, Kenji Okuno
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 187-196
Overview of National Tritium Program | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29745
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The R&D for tritium technology and studies of tritium science in Japan has been carried out in the national institutions (JAERI, PNC and others), in the universities, and in industry. In fusion fuel technology, the technological R&D of tritium processing and handling has been carried out by TPL-JAERI, including collaboration with TSTA (USA) and basic and innovative research conducted by the universities. PNC has conducted R&D and engineering studies in the heavy water quality control system for FUGEN reactor, a heavy water cooled reactor ATR, and in the tritium recovery system for the heavy water coolant. Since the last meeting at Toronto, there are many developments in the above researches which will be summarized here with some results.