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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.”
Tomonori Takizuka, JT-60 Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 301-307
Fusion Topical Opening Session | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963632
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Recent experimental results of power and particle control in JT-60U with W-shaped pumped divertor are presented. Backflow of carbon impurities towards x point is decreased by the dome as well as by the gas puff from the main plasma. Heat load on divertor plates is reduced by the detached plasma at high density and radiative plasma by neon seeding. Effective helium exhaust is demonstrated for helium-beam-injected plasmas. Results of high-confinement experiments are also shown. Strongly heated ELMy H-mode plasmas are sustained during 9 s without increasing the impurity contamination. High QDTeq ~ 1 is obtained in the low Ip regime of the reversed shear plasmas. Progress in the negative-ion-based neutral beam injection experiments is finally introduced