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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.”
S. Yang, Y. Gohar
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1682-1687
Magnet Engineering | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40002
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The TFCX conceptual designs call for the construction of the reactor torus through the use of “pie-shaped” segments for mechanical and maintenance considerations. The use of this concept results in hot spots in the inboard section of the torodial field (TF) coils due to neutron and photon streaming through the slots between the segments. This work studies these effects on the nuclear responses in the TF coils and introduces design solutions to reduce the impact on the reactor design.