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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.”
Dan Galeriu, Philip Davis, Sohan Chouhan, Wolfgang Raskob
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 853-858
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-A30511
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Computer models are used for predicting the impact of tritium releases. Their reliability, when experimental data are limited, can be judged from benchmark tests and uncertainty analysis. First results of a parameter uncertainty and sensibility analysis are presented for the environmental tritium code UFOTRI. The uncertainty range is shown to be less than one order of magnitude. The bulk of the variance is contributed by leaf area index, minimum stomatal resistance, dry and wet yield and initial soil moisture. Improvements in model assumptions are suggested.