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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.”
T. Hayashi, M. Yamada, T. Suzuki, Y. Matsuda, K. Okuno
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 1015-1019
Analysis and Accountancy | 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-A30539
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A scaled ZrCo bed ( 25 g tritium capacity of design ) with gas flowing calorimetry system was fabricated to establish the “in-bed” tritium accounting technology to apply to the ITER tritium storage beds. The basic calorimetric characteristics, steady state temperature raise of He gas stream flowing through a secondary coil line fixed in the ZrCo tritide, was measured and correlated with power input by heater to simulate tritium decay heat or with actual tritium storage. The target accuracy is 1 % which means to measure +− 1 gram (0.32 watt) of tritium on 100 g storage. The results shows the good accounting function that the temperature increases of He stream of 4.7 and 96.8 degrees were measured under power input of 0.32 and 8.0 watts, respectively, with good reproducibility. These “in-bed” tritium accounting function was well demonstrated storing a gram level of tritium gas within a few days.