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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.”
M. J. Gaeta, G. L. Hawkes, B. J. Merrill, D. A. Petti, H.-W. Bartels, K. Jongeward
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 1545-1549
Safety and Environment | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963170
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This paper describes the recent modeling enhancements to the CHEMCON code that allow more accurate post-LOCA calculations to be performed for the ITER project. Verification activities performed on select models are also detailed. As part of these activities, a method of approximating multi-dimensional conduction and radiation effects in the one-dimensional CHEMCON code is given.