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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.”
L. C Cadwallader, M. A. Stolpe Gavett, L. Quintana
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 518-522
Safety; Measurement and Accountability; Operation and Maintenance; Application | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29799
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Fusion facility safety and reliability/availability analyses require accurate component failure rate information to provide meaningful results. While fission reactor operating experience data may be adequate for some types of components, there are some data needs that are fusion-specific, such as tritium fueling and handling system information. This paper summarizes the results of a failure data analysis task on several components at Los Alamos National Laboratory's Tritium Systems Test Assembly (TSTA). We took the failure reports and component operating information from the TSTA Failure/Maintenance Data Base. Calculated failure rates are on the same order of magnitude as screening fusion failure rate data, although a few failure rates were slightly higher. These new data should be of interest to fusion safety analysts and tritium systems designers.