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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.”
J. E. Sisolak, S. E. Spangler, D. L. Henderson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 3 | May 1992 | Pages 2145-2151
Blanket Shield and Neutronic | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A30038
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Recently developed pulsed/intermittent irradiation calcu-lational models were used to analyze changes in the activity of major first wall constituents (aluminum, iron, manganese) due to changes in reactor pulsing schedules. Both magnetic fusion energy (MFE) and inertial fusion energy (IFE) experimental reactor systems were considered. Comparisons among pulsing schedules with equal neutron fluences demonstrated that the activities of some nuclides can be reduced to 28% of the values computed using a baseline pulsing schedule. This can be significant if the radionuclide affected dominates the total activity of the first wall.