ANS is committed to advancing, fostering, and promoting the development and application of nuclear sciences and technologies to benefit society.
Explore the many uses for nuclear science and its impact on energy, the environment, healthcare, food, and more.
Explore membership for yourself or for your organization.
Conference Spotlight
2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
Latest Magazine Issues
Feb 2026
Jul 2025
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
February 2026
Nuclear Technology
January 2026
Fusion Science and Technology
Latest News
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.”
Hiroo Nakamura, Juergen Dietz, Peter Ladd
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 705-710
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-A30487
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This paper presents considerations on basic requirements of fuelling, plasma exhaust and wall conditioning in ITER-EDA. In ITER-EDA, typical machine parameters are 1.5 GW of a fusion power and 1000 sec of a DT burn duration. Fuelling system consists of gas- and pellet injection systems. Maximum DT fuelling rate is 100 Pam3/s (pellet) to 500 Pam3/s (gas). Impurity gas(e.g. Ne, Ar) will be also injected to control divertor radiation loss. In plasma exhaust, designed value of total neutral pressure at inlet of pumping duct is 0.1 Pa to 10 Pa. Total net pumping speed of cryogenic primary pumps is about 300 m3/sec. In maximum, 90% of the regenerated fuel gases (H, D, T) from the primary cryopump will be directly back into the plasma. In wall conditioning, glow discharge cleaning (GDC) and electron cyclotron resonance discharge cleaning (ECRDC) are considered.