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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.
Mikhail Tikhonchev, Artem Muralev, Vyacheslav Svetukhin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 66 | Number 1 | July-August 2014 | Pages 91-99
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-721
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The present paper is devoted to radiation damage simulation of Fe-9at.%Cr binary alloy with twin grain boundaries (GBs) by the molecular dynamics method. Evaluations of specific energy of five GBs and sizes of corresponding GB regions have been obtained for iron and FeCr alloy at temperatures of 0 and 300 K. The binding energies of the vacancy, self-interstitial atom (SIA) and substitutional Cr atom to the GB in pure Fe have been estimated. The results showed that GB regions are energetically preferable for the point defects. Interaction of 10 keV displacement cascades with the GBs has been studied. The tendency to accumulate at the GB region has been shown for produced defects. Some quantitative results which describe features of radiation damage nearby the GB have been obtained. It is revealed that Cr fraction in SIAs inside the GB region is slightly lower than that in the initial alloy matrix. Cr fraction in interstitial configurations outside the GB region is almost three times as high. However, no remarkable chromium redistribution nearby the GB has been detected.