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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.
Yuji Hatano, Masanori Hara, Hiroko Ohuchi, Hirofumi Nakamura, Takumi Hayashi, Toshihiko Yamanishi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 3 | October 2011 | Pages 982-985
Measurement, Monitoring, and Accountancy | Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12580
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Concentration of tritium in highly tritiated water was measured by exposing imaging plates (IPs) to water vapor. Tritium penetrated into photostimulated luminescence (PSL) phosphor through polyethylene terephthalate protection layer, and well detectable signal of PSL was induced at tritium concentration of 16 kBq cm-3. In addition, tritium was reversibly desorbed by keeping IPs in air, and signal from IPs returned to background level. In other words, IPs exposed to tritiated water vapor were reusable; tritium concentration in water could be measured without any waste. In addition, no handling of tritiated water such as sampling and dilution was necessary.