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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.
S. Nogami, N. Hara, T. Nagasaka, A. Hasegawa, T. Muroga
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 1 | July 2011 | Pages 334-338
Materials Development & Plasma-Material Interactions | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 1) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12375
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The effects of post-welding heat treatment (PWHT) at temperatures ranging from 640°C to 750°C for 1 h on the mechanical and metallographical properties of a dissimilar-metal electron beam weld (EBW) joint of reduced activation ferritic/martensitic steel, F82H, and SUS316L austenitic stainless steel were investigated. The EBW joint is demarcated into five regions: the base metal of F82H (F82H-BM), the heat-affected zone of F82H (F82H-HAZ), the interlayer at the edge of F82H-HAZ (IL), the weld metal (WM), and the base metal of SUS316L (SUS316L-BM). No hardening resulting from welding and no significant change in the hardness resulting from PWHT above 640°C were observed in the F82H-BM, SUS316L-BM and WM. However, a significantly higher hardness was observed in the as-welded F82H-HAZ and IL than in other regions, and a significant reduction in hardness occurred in F82H-HAZ and IL, as a result of PWHT above 640°C. Irradiation hardening after PWHT at 720°C was investigated using proton-irradiation at 300°C up to 0.1 and 1 dpa. The irradiation hardening of the WM, IL and SUS316L-BM, which was less than that of the as-received SUS316L, was much larger than that of F82H-HAZ and F82H-BM.