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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.”
P Hughes
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 389-394
Safety; Measurement and Accountability; Operation and Maintenance; Application | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29776
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The JET project at Culham, Oxfordshire, UK, part of the Euratom Fusion Programme, is regulated by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution (HMIP) with regard to the holding of radioactive materials and the disposal of radioactive waste. JET has had to justify the holding of radioactive material and their radioactive waste management plans to HMIP. JET have been authorised by HMIP to discharge radioactive waste within limits and under specified conditions in order that national and international radiation dose limits to members of the public are not exceeded. There is an overlying requirement by HMIP that the discharges are limited by the use of the best practicable means (BPM) so that radiation exposures from JET's discharges are kept as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA). The HMIP Inspector has powers under the Radioactive Substances Act 1960 which allow him to inspect JET and carry out any relevant tests or measurements. The Inspector also ensures that JET has an appropriate monitoring programme in order to assess radiation doses in the environment.