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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.”
David J. Winfield, Joan Miller
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 995-999
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-A30535
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The Tritium Laboratory at the Chalk River Laboratories has recently been provided with a complete upgrade of the original 1979 Safety Analysis Report (SAR) in order to obtain authorization to increase the tritium inventory from 0.74 to 37 PBq. In particular, the re-analysis was intended to provide assurance that existing operational philosophy and analysis methods were consistent with technical advances and current safety and licensing requirements. Supporting documentation, design description, operations manual and emergency procedures were revised and updated. A systematic SAR format, developed for other facilities on site, was utilized. This paper summarizes the safety analysis contents and key insights and improvements resulting from the upgrade program.