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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. K. Heung, J. H. Owen, R. H. Hsu, R. F. Hashinger, D. E. Ward, P. E. Bandola
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 594-598
Safety; Measurement and Accountability; Operation and Maintenance; Application | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29812
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A new tritium processing facility, named the Replacement Tritium Facility (RTF), is nearing completion and is being prepared for startup at the Savannah River Site (SRS). The RTF has the capability to load and unload tritium from gas containers and to recover, purify and separate hydrogen isotopes. A multilayered confinement system is designed to reduce tritium losses to the environment. This confinement system is expected to confine and recover any tritium that might escape the process equipment, and to maintain the tritium concentration in the nitrogen glovebox atmosphere to less than 10−1 µCi/cc tritium during normal operation.