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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.
Jeffrey E. Seifried, Massimiliano Fratoni, Kevin J. Kramer, Jeffery F. Latkowski, Per F. Peterson, Jeffrey J. Powers, Janine M. Taylor
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 2 | August 2011 | Pages 692-697
Nuclear Analysis & Experiments | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST10-291
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This study establishes a procedure for constructing explicit and adjoint-based implicit sensitivities with MCNP5. Using these methods, an instantaneous sensitivity-based uncertainty analysis is performed on the depleted uranium hybrid LIFE (Laser Inertial Fusion Energy) blanket. Explicit sensitivities and uncertainties are calculated for (n, 2n), tritium production, fission, and radiative capture reaction rates during the fuel lifecycle. Nuclear data uncertainties and Monte Carlo counting precision are compared in a convergence study and the compounding of the two is quantified to gauge the validity of the analysis. A multi-group cross-section library is generated for adjoint calculations and selected adjoint distributions are shown and discussed.