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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.”
Dr Robert Keatch, Mr Brian Lawrenson, Mr Mark Finlay, Dr Barrie Lewis, Dr Colin Horsfield
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 38 | Number 1 | July 2000 | Pages 139-142
Technical Paper | Thirteenth Target Fabrication Specialists’ Meeting | doi.org/10.13182/FST00-A36131
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Current techniques used for the production of individual hohlraum components require single-point ultra-precision machining. In an effort to reduce cost and time, mass-production techniques adopted from the Microelectronics sector have been developed. These Microengineering processes will allow a variety of materials to be investigated with various geometrical features and surface topographies. Using thick photosensitive polymers, combined with electroplating processes, complex 3-D structures can be fabricated in multiple stages. In this review the production of a hohlraum end-cap used for indirect inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is presented as an example of this procedure.