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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.”
Yasushi Seki
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 3 | May 1992 | Pages 1707-1714
Magnetic Fusion Reactor and Systems Studies | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29968
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Fusion power reactor studies conducted in Japan are reviewed and their potential merits and R&D issues are listed. Beginning with a tokamak power reactor study carried out in 1973, there have been a considerable number of studies for both magnetic and inertial confinement fusion schemes. It is of interest to note that there are at least one power reactor concept for each major confinement scheme studied in Japan. Most of them are for the D-T fuel cycle but in recent years D-3He fuel reactors have come to be studied.