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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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 127-130
doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16887
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Thomson scattering (TS) is the most reliable diagnostic to measure the electron temperature and electron density radial profiles. In GAMMA 10, the yttrium-aluminium-garnet (YAG)-TS system was constructed with the large solid angle of TS collection optics. We carried out the Rayleigh and Raman scattering experiments for system settings and applied the YAG-TS system to the GAMMA 10 plasma. We can successfully measure the electron temperature and density radial profiles in the central cell of GAMMA 10 by using YAG-TS system. The supersonic molecular beam injection (SMBI) experiments have been started for plasma fueling study in GAMMA 10. In SMBI experiments, we observed the electron temperature decrease and electron density increase in the plasma center.