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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.”
Steven E. Jones
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 4 | December 1991 | Pages 915-923
Muon-Catalyzed and Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A11946961
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Studies of nuclear particle emissions from deuterided solids are briefly reviewed and contrasted with claims of excess power production. Evidence for growth of tritium and helium gases is also considered. Notions of low-energy nuclear debris formation along with lattice heating are critically analyzed. I conclude that there is no basis for connecting low-level nuclear emissions with excess-heat claims.