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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.”
Masaki Taniguchi, Satoru Tanaka
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 874-878
Fuel Cycle and Tritium Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963047
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Bonding nature of hydrogen isotopes on the surface of Li2O has been studied with the CRYSTAL92, ab-initio Hartree-Fock calculation code for periodic systems. It was found that the exothermic dissociative adsorption of H2O molecule could occur on the relaxed surface. The adsorption energy for the most stable site was 0.438eV per one H2O. The nature of -OH on the surface of Li2O was also analyzed. Calculation results showed that the stretching vibration of O–H is affected by the chemical species around the -OH.