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NRC issues draft EA/FONSI for Duane Arnold restart
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.
Keiji Nagai, Kohei Miyamoto, Tomokazu Iyoda, Cao Pan, Zhongze Gu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 216-220
Technical Paper | Nineteenth Target Fabrication Meeting | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11527
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This paper introduces examples of low-density (<50 mg/cm3) metal oxide targets using the electrospinning technique. Millimeter-sized targets of vanadium oxide and copper oxide were fabricated successfully. Low-density materials give well-controlled low-density plasma to produce an optically thin plasma. The advantage of the electrospinning sol-gel method is that the microstructure of the metal oxide fiber sheet can be designed and fabricated to meet the demand of the target in a very convenient way with mass production. The obtained low-density metal oxide can be used for the laser target to generate extreme ultraviolet light and X-rays.