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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.”
Jong Sung Ahn, Yong Kwon Koh
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 793-796
Tritium Safety | 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-A30501
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The tritium level of the precipitation in Korea is monitored at the Pohang Station from 1961 to 1976 and at the KAERI from 1981 to 1994. The tritium contents of the precipitation were recorded to about 1,300TU owing to world-wide nuclear devices in 1963. The tritium contents of precipitation, surface water, groundwater, and sea water in 1991 are 10TU, 14TU, 15TU, and 4TU, respectively. The tritium content tends to increase from Cheju Island (14TU) to Baekdu Mt. (48TU). This shows that the tritium contents increase with latitude and are effected by the altitude. The tritium contents of surface water, groundwater, and discharged water from heavy water-type nuclear power plant are measured higher than natural level. The tritium contents of discharged water from the fracture zone of the horizontal tunnel in the Chungyang area are analyzed. The data of tritium contents are applied to dating of groundwater by PFM and EM. The tritium contents of precipitation monitored were available as input data for dating of groundwater. Results of dating of groundwater are from about 14 year to 20 years.