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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.”
S. K. Ho, F. J. Brechtel, T. Kenneth Fowler
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 23 | Number 3 | May 1993 | Pages 321-330
Technical Paper | Safety/Environmental Aspect | doi.org/10.13182/FST93-A30160
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A simplified scaling law approach for calculating activation-induced radioactive inventories is extended and applied. The goal is to provide a sufficiently accurate, very fast method to calculate activation radioactive inventories as an integral part of tokamak system design codes. The method is applied to a silicon carbide first wall, but now all relevant daughter nuclides are considered, and the results are used to calculate various indexes that can be used to characterize environmental and safety characteristics of fusion reactors. The indexes obtained from the scaling laws are in reasonable agreement with those derived from inventories calculated directly from more time-consuming Monte Carlo methods.