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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.”
N. Isei, M. Sato, K. Tsuzuki, H. Kawashima, Y. Miura, H. Kimura, JFT-2M Group
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 1101-1105
Plasma Engineering, Heating, and Current Drive | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963391
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Magnetic effect of ferritic steel board (FB) on the plasma was experimentally investigated in the JFT-2M tokamak. Clear deterioration by the error field was not observed even in the condition of toroidally unbalanced placement of FBs outside vacuum vessel (VV). Deteriorating effects were not observed with the FBs inside VV for the operational region and the control of plasma, although slight discrepancy in the relation of vertical-coil current and equilibrium was found. Compatibility of FBs with high normalized-beta plasma (βN up to 2.7) was demonstrated after boronization.
