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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.”
Dan Gabriel Cepraga, Gilio Cambi, Manuela Frisoni, Franca Carloni
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 691-696
Neutronics Experiments and Analysis | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963695
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Decay heat plays an important role in fusion plant safety. To validate the codes, data and calculation procedures used in decay heat prediction, an international benchmark exercise was launched. The calculated results have been compared with experimental ones, obtained from a series of experiments performed using the Fusion Neutronics Source (FNS) at the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI), Tokai, Japan. This paper presents the decay heat results for two of the most relevant fusion-related materials, the AISI 316 steel and the copper samples, obtained using the ENEA activation code ANITA-4/F and discuss their comparison with the experimental ones.