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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.”
W. L. Barr, R. H. Bulmer, L. J. Perkins, S. A. Cohen, K. A. Werley
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 3 | May 1992 | Pages 1416-1420
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29920
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We have just completed a comparison of predictions for the scrape-off layer (SOL) plasma, from a physics model [1] with the more accurate ones from a two-dimensional fluid code, the B2 code [2]. The results presented here show rather good agreement on values of plasma temperature in the SOL and of divertor heat load, for a rather wide range of Tokamak sizes and parameters. We are therefore confident that this model will provide a suitable divertor module for both the new ITER systems code, SUPERCODE [3], and other applications requiring fast but accurate modelling of edge plasma parameters, at least within the range of the present benchmarks.