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  Getting back to yes: A local perspective on decommissioning, restart, and responsibility
  For 45 years, Duane Arnold Energy Center operated in Linn County, Ia., near the town of Palo and just northwest of Cedar Rapids. The facility, owned by NextEra Energy, was the only nuclear power plant in the state.
  In August 2020, a historic derecho swept across eastern Iowa with winds approaching 140 miles per hour. Damage to the plant’s cooling towers accelerated a shutdown that had already been planned, and the facility entered decommissioning soon after, with its fuel removed in October of that year. Iowa’s only nuclear plant had gone off line.
  Today the national energy landscape looks very different than it did just six short years ago. Electricity demand is rising rapidly as data centers, artificial intelligence infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, and electrification expand across the country. Reliable, carbon-free baseload power has become increasingly valuable. In that context, Linn County has approved the rezoning necessary to support the recommissioning and restart of Duane Arnold and is actively supporting NextEra’s efforts to secure the remaining state and federal approvals.
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Award Recipients

1983 1985

Arthur Holly Compton Award in Education (ETWDD)

Arthur B. Chilton

Samuel Glasstone Award (ETWDD)

Texas A&M University (First Place)
University of Florida (Second Place)
University of Lowell (Second Place)

Landis Public Communication and Education Award

Bernard L. Cohen

Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award

Kenneth C. Gross

Local Section Meritorious Award (ETWDD)

San Diego (Best Overall)
Idaho (Public Information)
Northeastern New York (Most Improved)
Northern California (Membership)
Eastern Carolinas (Programs and Meetings)
Oak Ridge/Knoxville (Operations and Management)
Taiwan (Honorable Mention in recognition of arranging and operating an Executive Conference)

Mark Mills Award (ETWDD)

Ming-Yuan Hsiao

Outstanding Achievement Award (FED)

Charles C. Baker
Don Steiner

Presidential Citations

Melvin Price

Radiation Science and Technology Award (IRD)

Robin P. Gardner

Seaborg Medal

Glenn T. Seaborg

Henry DeWolf Smyth Nuclear Statesman Award (NEI)

Takashi Mukaibo

Special Award

Michael E. Phelps
Team: Thomas F. Budinger
Stephen E. Derenzo and Ronald H. Huseman

Student Design Competition (ETWDD)

Graduate

University of Wisconsin-Madison
James Berry, Ali A. Bajabir, James P. Herzog, Moo Hwan Kim, Myung Do Oh, R. Todd Wlzbacker

Undergraduate

University of Tennessee
Keith E. Holbert, S. Keith Penny, Paul Seagle, Thomas D. Smith

Honorable Mention - Graduate

Ohio State University
David E. van Deusen, David A. Fry, Gregory S. Rowe, Christopher Charles

Honorable Mention - Undergraduate

University of Illinois-Urbana
James Carrol, Kar Chin, Alan Conlin, Charles Keller, Thomas Mosinsky, James Thilenius, Bruce Kschinka, Francesco Venneri

Technical Accomplishment Award (FED)

Christopher Foster & Stanley Milora (team award)

Theos J. ("Tommy") Thompson Award For Reactor Safety (NISD)

Frank Reginald Farmer

Walter H. Zinn Medal

John M. West