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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.”
Mario Rabinowitz, David H. Worledge
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 17 | Number 2 | March 1990 | Pages 344-349
Cold Fusion Technical Note | Japanese Fusion Research: Activities in Fusion Nuclear Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A39902
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Experimental reports continue to suggest that the crystalline solid state may present a unique environment for deuteron-deuteron (d-d) fusion at ambient temperature (cold fusion). The analysis herein shows that newly reported cluster-impact d-d fusion at energies ∼100 eV has much in common with coldfusion and might appropriately be called lukewarm fusion. Both phenomena evidently need a novel theoretical approach for their understanding. A deuteron effective mass approach is proposed as a possible explanation of the reported experimental results.