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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.”
Vijay R. Nargundkar, Damaraju V. S. Ramakrishna, Om Prakash Joneja
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 23 | Number 4 | July 1993 | Pages 419-425
Technical Paper | Blanket Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST93-A30134
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Thoria rods and a water moderator are arranged in a simple rectangular geometry in a multilayered configuration to produce 233U by bombardment with 14-MeV neutrons. The 233U production rate is measured by measuring the 312-keV gamma activity associated with 233Pa. Detailed neutronic calculations have been made using the versatile MCNP Monte Carlo code and the BMCCS2 cross-section library. There is very good agreement between the experimental measurements of 233U production and the corresponding calculations.
