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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.”
E. T. Cheng
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1423-1430
Blanket Neutronic | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39966
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As part of the U.S. DOE Office of Fusion Energy Nuclear Data Needs program, we have continued assessment of the nuclear data needs for the development of fusion energy. We have identified and reviewed the high priority elements whose neutron emission data are needed for a near-term fusion ignition facility and fusion power reactor designs for demonstrating the scientific and engineering feasibilities of fusion energy. We found that most of the elements identified here are lacking experimental data from 6 to 15 MeV except hydrogen, lithium, beryllium, and copper. A list of high priority dosimetry cross sections was developed that includes some 29 reactions, including 6 reactions recommended by the plasma diagnostic group of PPPL. Of these 29 reactions, 18 cross sections were chosen to be included in the ENDF/B-VI dosimetry files. The activation cross sections needed for elements to be used in the near-term ignition device and future power reactors were compiled. These cross sections were prioritized according to their activation levels and half-lives of their activation products. All these cross sections are going to be included in the END/B-VI activation files.