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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.
Xiaoyan Shu, Bo Huang, Jijun Yang, Dongping Liu, Hongyu Fan, Jiali Liao, Yuanyou Yang, Ning Liu, Jun Tang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 66 | Number 1 | July-August 2014 | Pages 278-282
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-734
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Potassium-doped tungsten (W-K) and pure tungsten samples were fabricated by the spark plasma sintering (SPS) method and irradiated by He plasma. The samples were characterized by relative density, optical microscopy, and atomic force microscope (AFM) and scanning electron microscope (SEM) measurements. Through tuning the sintering parameters, samples with different K content but similar density and size distribution were obtained in this study. It is found that a sample with higher K content shows better resistance to helium irradiation than that containing less K. In addition, both W-K samples show better performance than pure W in low energy He resistance, indicating that the potassium doping is helpful for improving He-plasma-irradiation resistance for tungsten-based materials.