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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.”
Yuichi Ogawa, Jifang Wang, Takashi Yamamoto, Nobuyuki Inoue, Kunihiko Okano, Tsuneo Amano
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | April 1995 | Pages 432-435
Advanced Tokamak And Steady-State Sustainment Systems | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11947122
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A large - bootstrap - current tokamak plasma driven by the ohmic seed current has been studied for inductively-operated ultra-long-pulse tokamak fusion reactors. The safety factor profile with the negative magnetic shear has been demonstrated only by the combination of the ohmic and bootstrap currents, by adjusting the density profile, and the bootstrap current fraction more than 80 % is realized with the help of the increased q(0) value.