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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.”
Chikara Konno, Fujio Maekawa, Masayuki Wada, Kazuaki Kosako
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 1013-1017
Neutronics Experiments and Analysis (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963746
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An analysis of benchmark experiment on iron for D-T neutrons with JENDL Fusion File and FENDL/E-1.1 suggested that neutron flux above 10 MeV in iron, was underestimated monotonously with depth. Reasons of this underestimation were investigated through various analyses by DORT3.1 with JENDL Fusion Füe, FENDL/E-1.1 and FENDL/E-2.0. The followings for evaluated cross section data on iron around 15 MeV were considered to be possible origins of underestimation of neutron flux above 10 MeV.
1. JENDL Fusion File: Elastic scattering cross sections for forward angles were smaller. Angle-integrated cross section data of (n,2n) and (n,np) reactions were larger.
2. FENDL/E-1.1: Elastic scattering cross sections for forward angles were smaller.
3. FENDL/E-2.0: Angle-integrated cross section data of inelastic scattering and (n,np) reaction were larger.