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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.”
M. D. Williams, H. P. Eubank, L. R. Grisham, J. H. Kamperschroer, H. W. Kugel, G. D. Martin, T. O'Connor, R. E. Prechter, B. A. Prichard, Jr., A. Von Halle, R. A. Winje, K. E. Wright
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 800-803
Plasma Heating, Impurity Control, and Fueling | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40132
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The first two neutral injection beamlines have been installed on TFTR and are now operational. The operation of six ion sources producing either hydrogen or deuterium beams at energies up to 80 kilovolts has produced notable plasma heating results. Eventual neutral beam capability on TFTR should provide the energy necessary to demonstrate breakeven.
