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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.”
O. Motojima, N. Ohyabu, A. Komori, N. Noda, K. Yamazaki, H. Yamada, A. Sagara, S. Yamaguchi, K.Y. Watanabe, N. Inoue, H. Suzuki, Y. Kubota, J. Yamamoto, M. Fujiwara, A. Iiyoshi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | April 1995 | Pages 123-130
Overview Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11947056
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The Large Helical Device (LHD) is a big non-tokamak type superconducting toroidal fusion facility. In both areas of the physics and technology, the LHD project is expected to contribute to the exploration of necessary understandings of the currentless steady-state plasmas, which have high performance of temperature, density, confinement time and beta value extrapolatable to the reactor regime. This paper describes the necessary issues of major operations scenario especially concerned with the divertor functions, which realize the steady-state experiment in LHD.