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Project Matador joins EIS pilot program; NRC seeks public input
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has released a notice of intent to conduct a scoping process and prepare an environmental impact statement to evaluate Fermi America’s plan to construct and operate four AP1000 reactors at its Project Matador Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus in Texas.
While that announcement may seem routine, the process envisioned is not. As part of the company’s combined license (COL) application with the NRC, it has agreed to participate in an accelerated environmental review pilot program under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Under this pilot, the applicant(s) develop a draft EIS under NRC supervision.
J. Halperin, R. W. Stoughton, C. V. Ellison, D. E. Ferguson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 1 | Number 1 | March 1956 | Pages 1-3
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE56-A17653
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Thorium metal was irradiated in the thermal neutron flux of the Low Intensity Test Reactor and of a graphite reactor. From mass spectrographic analysis of the U234 content and assumption of an effective capture cross section (including epithermal as well as thermal neutron capture) of 8.0 barns for Th232, the effective neutron capture cross section of Pa233 for thermal reactor neutrons was determined to be 140 ± 20 barns.
