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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.”
H. Oohara, N. Akino, N. Ebisawa, S. Hikita, A. Honda, T. Itoh, M. Kawai, M. Kazawa, M. Kusaka, M. Kuriyama, K. Mogaki, T. Ohga, F. Satoh, H. Seki, Y. Tanai, R. Toyokawa, N. Umeda, K. Usui, H. Yamazaki
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 1140-1144
Plasma Engineering, Heating, and Current Drive | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963399
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The positive-ion based NBI system for JT-60 began operation in 1986 with hydrogen beam, and had injected the neutral beam power of 27 MW at 75 keV. The beam species has been changed to deuterium through changing the ion sources and beam-line components in 1991. The NBI has injected a deuterium beam of 40 MW at 96 keV in 1996. In 2000, the computer control system for the beam operation has been changed from a mini-computer to a workstation system in order to match a great variety of beam injection parameters, and the operation capability has greatly improved.