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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.”
Masabumi Nishikawa, Ken-Ichi Tanaka, Mitsuru Uetake
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 26 | Number 1 | August 1994 | Pages 17-26
Technical Paper | Tritium System | doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A30298
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The tritium bred in a deuterium-tritium fusion reactor is to be extracted from the tritium breeding blanket by sweep gas. To be used as fuel for the reactor, the tritium must be recovered in a form that is easy to transfer to the main fuel cycle. The feasibility of a cryosorption method that uses a porous adsorbent, such as molecular sieves or activated carbon, at liquid nitrogen temperature (77.4 K) is discussed.