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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. J. McManamy, R. D. Benson, R. L. Brown, G. H. Henkel, E. A. Lazarus, D. E. Williamson, C. T. Wilson, Jr.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 2 | March 1989 | Pages 1064-1068
Magnet Engineering, Design and Experiments — II | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A39833
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A prototype ohmic heating coil for the proposed Spherical Torus Experiment (STX) has been designed, fabricated, and successfully tested to 16 T, well above its design operating field and stress levels. The conductor material was Glidcop Al-15 with a copper tube for water cooling soldered into a groove. The magnet winding inner and outer radii were 7.5 cm and 14.2 cm, respectively, and the axial length was 48 cm. The magnet heated to approximately 90°C during a pulse and was cooled within 2 min. All design and performance goals were met or exceeded.