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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.
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
Thank you for participating in the 2024 ANS Winter Conference and Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2024)!
The ATH Proceedings are now available to all who registered for the conference. Access to the proceedings is linked to the account you used to register for the conference.
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Organized by the American Nuclear Society Thermal Hydraulics Division, this embedded topical meeting is the seventh in a growing series featuring peer-reviewed, full-length technical papers, summaries, and abstracts covering recent advances in thermal hydraulics.
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