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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.”
Hiroshi Noguchi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 2 | March 1995 | Pages 56-61
doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11963805
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The conversion reaction of tritium gas to tritiated water in dry air has been studied using low–concentration tritium gases which have three different hydrogen isotope compositions. The conversion was directly proportional to a ratio of radioactivity of T2 to that of total tritium. This demonstrates that the T2 decay process is predominant for the conversion reaction at low initial tritium concentrations. First-order rate constants for the reaction in dry air are found to be independent of initial tritium concentration. A model to predict the rate constant of the production of tritiated water from T2 in dry air has been developed. The modeling results show that the T2 decay process is predominant at low concentrations, while O+ and N2+ ions formed through tritium beta-ray induced reactions play important roles at high concentrations.