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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.”
L. Bromberg
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 747-755
Power Reactor Studies | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40127
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In this paper, the options available for tokamak reactors with normal conducting magnets will be described. The advantages and disadvantages of using normal magnets in fusion tokamak reactors will be described. The impact of the use of resistive magnets on the capital cost, environmental concerns and availability (related to cost of electricity) of a tokamak reactor will be discussed. Special emphasis on electricity producing reactors will be given.
