Categorical Exclusion Determination
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
October 18, 2017
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The purpose of the proposed action is to provide state-of-the-art scientific instrumentation to support nuclear fuel research. The presence of unused and obsolete equipment in Hot Cell 5 at the Materials and Fuels Complex (MFC) Analytical Laboratory (AL), building MFC-752AL, does not meet modern standards and incurs unnecessary maintenance and labor costs and needs to be replaced. The proposed action installs gamma spectroscopy equipment and a motorized trolley to change samples at desired intervals in Hot Cell 5 in MFC-752AL room A101a.