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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.”
Ulrich Fischer, Y. Oyama, F. Maekawa, C. Konno, M. Wada, C. Ichihara, Y. Makita, A. Takahashi, K. Ueki, K. Kosako, K. Hayashi, M. Youssef, H. Hunter, C. Slater, U. Fischer, F. Kappler, E. Stein, H. Tsige-Tamirat, E. Wiegner, Karlsruhe, P. Batistoni, L. Petrizzi, V. Rado, L. Benmansour, A. Santamarina, K. Seidel, A. Blokhin, S. P. Simakov, V. Sinitsa, D. Markovskij
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 1093-1100
Neutronics Experiments and Analyses | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963096
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A co-ordinated international benchmark validation task has been conducted to validate the Fusion Evaluated Nuclear Data Library FENDL-1 through data tests against integral 14-MeV neutron experiments. The main objective of this task was to qualify the FENDL-1 working libraries for fusion applications and to elaborate recommendations for further data improvements. A large variety of existing integral 14 MeV benchmark experiments has been analysed with the FENDL-1 working libraries for continuous energy Monte Carlo and multigroup discrete ordinates calculations. This paper reviews the FENDL-1 benchmark analyses and gives an overview on the major findings, conclusions and recommendations for further data improvements to be included in the forthcoming FENDL-2 data library.