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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.”
G. Velarde, J.M. Aragonés, M.C. Gonzalez, P. Hernén, J.J. Honrubia J.L. Hortal, J.M. Martínez-Val, E, Mínguez, J.L. Ocaña, J.M. Perlado, J.M. Santolaya, J. Sanz
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1850-1855
Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40030
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This article discusses the effect of different potential spectra of neutrons leaking from an inertial confinement fusion (ICF) pellet on integral parameters characterizing the blanket performance. We have compared time dependent and steady state neutron calculations to determine the neutron and gamma spectra from the target. Results show, that assuming a fuel burnup-average ρR parameter,<ρR>b, in the steady state method, realistic spectra can be obtained. The influence of the fuel <ρR>b, ρΔR pusher parameter as well as that of the gammas exploding from the target, on the chamber response has been analyzed.