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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.”
J. Wei, L. Bromberg, R. C. Myer, D. R. Cohn
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 2 | March 1989 | Pages 1071-1075
Plasma Heating and Current Drive — II | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A39834
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Neutral beam injection into CIT is discussed. Monte Carlo methods are used to evaluate available windows of operating density and beam energies. The beam deposition profile is determined for a wide range of parameters. The effects of the excitation enhanced ionization cross section have been studied, both with and without impurities. Enhanced ionization processes and impurities are found to prevent the penetration of 300 keV deuterium beams. Requirements for low energy beam injection are determined. In order to utilize the TFTR power supplies (300 kV maximum), it is necessary to inject hydrogen beams.