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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.”
R. L. Fagaly, N. B. Alexander, R. A. Mangano, C. R. Gibson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 597-602
Tritium Processing | Proceedings of the Fifth Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion, and Isotopic Applications Belgirate, Italy May 28-June 3, 1995 | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30468
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We describe a high pressure cryogenic fill station and a novel method to retrieve and transport filled inertial confinement fusion targets at cryogenic temperatures. The fill station (currently under construction) will be capable of filling millimeter-size plastic spheres with DT or D2 to pressures exceeding 150 MPa. After filling, the thin-walled targets are cooled and kept below 20 K to prevent them from bursting. After cooling the targets, a cryogenic wrench is used to open the pressurization cell. The fill station cryostat is designed to allow a second cryostat to retrieve the filled targets. This second cold transfer cryostat features removable shrouds with seals that can be repeatably made and broken at cryogenic temperatures.