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Efforts by NextEra Energy to restart the Duane Arnold nuclear power plant as early as 2029 continue to move forward with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's preliminary environmental assessment and determination that the restart would have no significant environmental impacts.
On Thursday, the NRC posted a draft environmental assessment and a finding of no significant impact for the Palo, Iowa, facility; the Federal Register notice was published on Monday. The Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Dominance Financing is a cooperating agency on the draft EA, as the DOE is considering providing financial assistance to the restart project.
S. Sakakibara, K. Y. Watanabe, S. Ohdachi, Y. Narushima, K. Toi, K. Tanaka, K. Narihara, K. Ida, T. Tokuzawa, K. Kawahata, H. Yamada, A. Komori, LHD Experiment Group
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 58 | Number 1 | July-August 2010 | Pages 176-185
Chapter 4. MHD | Special Issue on Large Helical Device (LHD) | doi.org/10.13182/FST10-A10804
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This paper reviews progress in the study of pressure-driven interchange stability in the Large Helical Device (LHD) for 10 years. When the plasma approaches the boundary of ideal interchange mode, a strong magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) mode appears, leading to a distortion of pressure profile, although no major disruption is caused. The experiments for investigating magnetic shear effects in the magnetic hill configuration indicate that the reduction of magnetic shear leads to a minor collapse due to an excitation of low-order MHD mode. In the high-beta regime of more than 4%, MHD modes excited in the periphery with magnetic hill are observed to dominate, and it was found that the amplitude depends on the magnetic Reynolds number as well as the pressure gradient, which is qualitatively consistent with the prediction of resistive interchange mode. Also, experiments and theory for finding parameter dependence of the onset of the mode indicate that the onset is related to both the magnetic Reynolds number and the stability index of resistive interchange mode.