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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.
L. El-Guebaly, R. Kurtz, M. Rieth, H. Kurishita, A. Robinson, ARIES Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 1 | July 2011 | Pages 185-189
Divertor & High Heat Flux Components | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 1) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12349
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The development of radiation-resistant materials to sustain the harsh fusion environment represents a challenging task for divertor designers. In recent years, advanced physics simulations of the power leaving the plasma with radiation and charged particles indicate much higher heat fluxes to the divertor than previous estimates. In response, experts in EU, Japan, and US developed several W alloys for advanced He-cooled divertors that can handle heat fluxes in excess of 10 MW/m2. This paper briefly discusses the ongoing effort to develop W alloys suitable for fusion applications, the challenging phenomena impacting the behavior of W under a fusion environment, and the environmental impact of the most promising, state-of-the-art alloys: W-La2O3 and W-1.1TiC.