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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.”
Makoto Matsukawa, Shinichi Ishida, Akira Sakasai, Gen-Ichi Kurita, Yushi Miura, Tsunehisa Terakado, Yoshikazu Ohmori, Syunzo Ohmori, Jun Okano, Katsuhiro Shimada, Nobuyuki Hosogane
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 1106-1110
Plasma Engineering, Heating, and Current Drive | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963392
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The JT-60 facility is now planning to replace the existing machine with a superconducting machine (JT-60SC) in order to proceed with advanced studies of steady state plasmas with high performance core conditions close to those of fusion reactor. A maximum plasma current of 4 MA and duration of 100 s are expected. Existing toroidal and poloidal field coils and vacuum vessel will be completely replaced. Since the present JT-60 system has been designed for a plasma current duration of 15 s, the coil and power supply systems need to be reconstructed to ones with a long pulse capability. This paper describes the new JT-60 machine and the design of the coil power supply system.