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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.”
G. T. McConville, David A. Menke
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 23 | Number 3 | May 1993 | Pages 316-320
Technical Paper | Tritium System | doi.org/10.13182/FST93-A30159
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The exchange of CH4 in tritium has been measured at concentrations of 1.45 and3.00 mol% to display the time evolution of CT4. It is observed that the total methane concentration decreases with time, and no masses >24 amu are observed using mass spectroscopy. After 18 months, only 0.2% CT4 gas remained in the 3.00% CH4 experiment. These observations indicate that carbon is being removed from the gas phase. A model based on ion/molecule interactions is presented to explain the formation of CT4 and free carbon.
