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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.”
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 660-666
Recent Results from Inertial and Magnetic Confinement Experiments | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963012
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Recent JT-60U experiments were concentrated on extending new operational regimes such as the negative-shear mode and high triangularity regime in addition to high βp H-mode. The results are quite encouraging for steady-state operation which is necessary for ITER and future tokamak reactors such as SSTR. First neutral beam injection into a tokamak plasma using negative ion acceleration was successfully made. Design and fabrication of the W-shaped radiative pumped divertor is progressing on schedule and the design of the JT-60SU is making progress.