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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. Pestchanyi, V. Makhlaj, I. Landman
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 66 | Number 1 | July-August 2014 | Pages 150-156
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-736
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Analysis of comprehensive investigations of divertor armor erosion under action of edge-localized modes (ELMs) using the PEGASUS-3D code has been performed. Different erosion mechanisms for tungsten (W) and carbon fiber composite (CFC) armor materials have been revealed. This difference explains almost 3 orders of magnitude difference in the erosion rates of CFC and W. Investigation of the crack pattern evolution under repetitive ELM-like surface heat load has been done. Special treatment for tungsten armor tiles has been proposed for reduction of dust production rate in ITER operation regime.