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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.”
H. Tsuji, S. Shimamoto, A. Ulbricht, P. Komarek, F. Wüchner
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 823-828
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-A40135
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The Large Coil Task, an international technology program under the auspices of the IEA, has been conducted to develop large superconducting toroidal coils for tokamaks by the participation of the U.S., Switzerland, Euratom, and Japan. Among the six coils being developed under this program, domestic tests of the pool-cooled Japanese coil in June 1982 and of the forced-cooled Euratom coil in April 1984 were successfully carried out prior to shipment and installation at the LCTF in ORNL. These two LCT coils are the first ones which show experimentally the characteristics of pool-cooled and forced-cooled large coils for TOKAMAK machines. Major results obtained by the two domestic tests are described from the view of comparison of both cooling systems.