Energy Department Moves to Fast-Track Advanced Nuclear Reactor Approvals

DOE puts in place NEPA exclusion for advanced reactors

The Department of Energy (DOE) has established a categorical exclusion from certain National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) procedures for approving and constructing advanced reactors. The exclusion is a “category of actions that the agency has determined, as established in its agency NEPA procedures, normally does not significantly affect the quality of the human environment and therefore does not require preparation of an environmental assess…