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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.”
E. R. Hager, J. R. Lindgren, D. W. Graumann, M. G. Dunlap
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 968-973
Blanket and First-Wall 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-A40159
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A lithium blanket module (LBM), representative of a fusion reactor blanket module has been fabricated by GA Technologies Inc. via sub contract from Princeton Plasma Physics Lab under the sponsorship of the Electric Power Research Institute. The LBM consists of a cubical array of 92 cylindrical breeder rods, 2.54 cm in diameter. Each rod consists of an ∼59 cm long section of lithium oxide pellets clad in 0.03 cm wall Type 316 stainless steel tube followed by a 20 cm long stainless steel reflector rod. Reusable test rods in the 20 cm diameter central region incorporate activation foils for neutron dosimetry and aluminum clad pellets for tritium dosimetry. The breeder rods are contained in an enclosure structure which has provisions for insertion and removal of test rods and dosimeter wires. Procedures developed for fabrication and assembly of the rods and enclosure structure proved to be satisfactory and reliable and the work was done on schedule and within budget.