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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.”
R.R. Peterson, G.A. Moses, R.L. Engelstad, D.L. Henderson, G.L. Kulcinski, E.G. Lovell, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, J.J. Watrous, R.E. Olson, D.L. Cook
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1895-1900
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-A40038
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The Light Ion Fusion Target Development Facility (TDF) is expected to test approximately ten targets per day having yields in the 50 to 800 MJ range. This large number of high yield micro-explosions creates design problems in the TDF that are not present in PBFA-I and PBFA-II. The TDF would be the first light ion facility where radioactivity in the target debris and induced in the facility itself constitute a biological hazard. It must have a first wall and a target diagnostics package that can survive repeated mechanical and thermal pulses from the target microexplosions. In addition, the repetition rate is much higher than for present day light ion beam drivers. A preliminary conceptual design for the TDF including a reaction chamber, biological shield, target diagnostics package and driver that addresses these and other problems is presented.