Open AccessEnvironmental Assessment for the proposed Induction Linac System Experiments in Building 51B at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California
Publication year - 1995
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/119909
Subject(s) - environmental impact statement , action (physics) , meaning (existential) , environmental quality , national laboratory , national environmental policy act , quality (philosophy) , statement (logic) , political science , engineering , environmental science , environmental planning , environmental ethics , public administration , environmental impact assessment , engineering physics , psychology , law , physics , philosophy , epistemology , quantum mechanics , psychotherapist
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA), (DOE/EA-1087) evaluating the proposed action to modify existing Building 51B at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) to install and conduct experiments on a new Induction Linear Accelerator System. LBNL is located in Berkeley, California and operated by the University of California (UC). The project consists of placing a pre-fabricated building inside Building 51B to house a new 10 MeV heavy ion linear accelerator. A control room and other support areas would be provided within and directly adjacent to Building 51B. The accelerator system would be used to conduct tests, at reduced scale and cost, many features of a heavy-ion accelerator driver for the Department of Energy`s inertial fusion energy program. Based upon information and analyses in the EA, the DOE has determined that the proposed action is not a major Federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment within the meaning of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Therefore, an Environmental Impact Statement is not required. This report contains the Environmental Assessment, as well as the Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI)