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NRC to add new items to categorical exclusions list
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has identified five categories of action to add to its list of categorical exclusions to reduce its documentation work under National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) procedures.
These revisions are included in the final rule, “Categorical exclusions from environmental review,” which was published in the Federal Register on March 30. The final rule will become effective on April 29.
J. P. Moore, R. S. Graves, D. L. McElroy
Nuclear Technology | Volume 22 | Number 1 | April 1974 | Pages 88-93
Technical Paper | Fusion Reactor Materials / Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT74-A16277
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The thermal conductivity λ, electrical resistivity ρ, and absolute Seebeck coefficient S of two grades of nearly isotropic graphite were measured from 300 to 1000°K both before and after neutron irradiation up to 5.0 × 1021 n/cm2 (>50 keV). Nominal irradiation temperatures were 823, 923, and 1023°K. The thermal resistance, λ−1, of the unirradiated graphites was proportional to T from 500 to 1000°K. Neutron irradiation decreased λ at 300°K by a factor of 4.5 and increased ρ at 300°K by 2.5, in general agreement with previous investigations, and irradiation changed S from small negative values to large positive ones. The product of thermal conductivity and electrical resistivity was nearly constant with fluence from 2.6 × 1021 to 5.0 × 1021 n/cm2.