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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.”
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 1472-1477
Tritium Waste Management and Discharge Control | 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-A30620
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Treatment of tritiated waste from fusion power reactors has received little attention. Wastes will need detritiation involving isotope swamping before disposal, recycling or exemption. Work on detritiation techniques should consider the isotopic dilution involved as well as decontamination factor, volume reduction and product homogeneity; for the cost of tritium recovery from the contaminated water (or hydrogen) produced is highest for tritium levels just above the release limits. Most important to the overall costs of tritiated waste disposal are release and declassification limits.