DOE Amended ROD for the Supplemental EIS environmental analyses in DOE’s 1999 EIS for the Production of Tritium in a Commercial Light Water Reactor (DOE/EIS-0288-S1).
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
September 14, 2023
minute read time
Production of Tritium in a Commercial Light Water Reactor
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a semi-autonomous agency within the Department of Energy (DOE) issued an Amended Record of Decision based on the EIS for Production of Tritium in a Commercial Light Water Reactor (DOE/EIS-0288-S1), which supplements DOE’s 1999 Final EIS (DOE/EIS-0288), which addressed the production of tritium in Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) reactors at Watts Bar Unit 1 in Rhea County, TN, and Sequoyah Units 1 and 2 in Hamilton County, TN, using tritium-producing burnable absorber rods (TPBARs). NNSA’s new decision is to choose the 2016 CLWR SEIS’s Alternative 4 that assumes TVA would irradiate up to a total of 5,000 TPBARs every 18 months at the Watts Bar site using Watts Bar 1 and 2 reactors.
For more information, see Production of Tritium in a Commercial Light Water Reactor.