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GNEP
Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS)
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UPDATE (7/10/08)
The Department received more than 14,000 comment documents during the scoping period for the GNEP PEIS. Consideration of these comments resulted in the addition of several programmatic alternatives (i.e., alternative open and closed fuel cycles and related technologies). In addition, DOE reconsidered its proposals regarding specific facilities in light of scoping comments and other considerations. As a result, DOE has eliminated the project-specific proposals for the siting, construction, and operation of a nuclear fuel recycling center, an advanced recycling reactor, and an advanced fuel cycle research facility from the GNEP PEIS. DOE will not make any decision based on this PEIS regarding sites for these facilities.
These changes required additional time to prepare the Draft GNEP PEIS. Public hearings will be scheduled to begin at least 30 days after the release of the Draft GNEP PEIS, which is expected in August 2008.
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The United States Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) is announcing its intent to prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (hereafter, GNEP PEIS). The scoping process is an opportunity for the public to assist DOE in determining, among other things, reasonable alternatives and issues for analysis. Public scoping meetings will provide the public with an opportunity to present comments, ask questions, and discuss issues regarding the GNEP PEIS with DOE officials.
Domestically, GNEP involves a programmatic proposal as well as project-specific proposals. The programmatic proposal is to recycle spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and destroy the long-lived radioactive components of that SNF. Toward this end, GNEP includes project-specific proposals to construct and operate three facilities: a nuclear fuel recycling center, which would separate the SNF into its reusable components and waste components and manufacture new nuclear fuel using reusable components; an advanced recycling reactor, which would destroy long-lived radioactive elements in the new fuel while generating electricity; and an advanced fuel cycle research facility, which would perform research into SNF recycling processes and other aspects of advanced nuclear fuel cycles.
At this time, DOE contemplates that the PEIS will consider 13 sites as possible locations for one or more of the proposed GNEP facilities. Eleven of these sites were selected based on responses received regarding the Funding Opportunity Announcement (http://www.energy.gov/news/4492.htm). Two additional DOE sites have been preliminarily identified as possible locations for the DOE-directed advance fuel cycle research facility.
GNEP also includes two international initiatives: 1) ensure reliable fuel services, in which the United States would cooperate with countries that have advanced nuclear programs to supply nuclear fuel services to other countries that refrain from pursuing enrichment or recycling facilities to make their own nuclear fuel; 2) the United States would promote the development of proliferation-resistant, modular nuclear power reactors suitable for use in developing economies.
The public scoping period began with the publication of the Notice of Intent (NOI) in the Federal Register on January 4, 2007, and will continue for 90 days. The locations, dates, and times for the public scoping meetings are as follows:
Date: February 13, 2007
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Double Tree Hotel
215 South Illinois Avenue
Time: 6:00-9:30pm
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Date: March 1, 2007
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Hilltop House Best Western
400 Trinity Drive (at Central)
Time: 6 00—9:3Opm |
Date: February 15, 2007
North Augusta, South Carolina
North Augusta Community Center
495 Brookside Avenue
Time: 6:00-9:30pm |
Date: March 6,2007
Paducah, Kentucky
Executive Inn Riverfront
One Executive Boulevard
Time: 6:0O-9:3Opm |
Date: February 22, 2007
Joliet, Illinois
Barber Ober-Wortmann Horticultural Center
227 North Gougar Street
Time: 6:00-9:30pm | Date: March 8, 2007
Piketon, Ohio
Ohio State University Endeavor Center/Rm. 160
1862 Shyville Road
Time: 6:0O-9:3Opm |
Date: February 26, 2007
Hobbs, New Mexico
Lea County Event Center
5101 N Lovington-Hobbs Hwy
Time: 6:00-9:3Opm |
Date: March 13, 2007
Pasco, Washington
Red Lion Hotel
2525 N. 20th Avenue
Time: 6:0O-9:3Opm |
Date: February 27, 2007
Carlsbad, New Mexico
Pecos River Village Conf. Center
Carousel House
711 Muscatel Avenue
Time: 9:00am-12:30pm |
Date: March 15, 2007
Idaho Falls, Idaho
Red Lion Hotel on the Falls
475 River Parkway
Time: 6:0O-9:3Opm |
Date: February 27, 2007
Roswell, New Mexico
Best Western Sally Port Inn & Sts
2000 N. Main Street
Time: 6:00-9:30pm |
Date: March 19, 2007
Washington. D.C.
Hotel Washington
15th & Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Time: 1:00-5:00pm |
Date: March 26, 2007
Hood River, Oregon
Hood River Inn -- Gorge Room
1108 East Marina Way
TuneL 6:00-9:30pm
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If you would like to request any additional information please contact Mr. Timothy A. Frazier GNEP PEIS Document Manager, Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20585-0119, or via telephone: 866-645-7803, Fax: 866-645-7807, or by e-mail at GNEP-PEIS@nuclear.energy.gov. Additional information on GNEP may be found at www.gnep.energy.gov.
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