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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.
Toshiharu Takeishi, Kenji Kotoh, Yoshiya Kawabata, Jun-ichi Tanaka, Shingo Kawamura, Masayuki Iwata
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 3 | April 2015 | Pages 596-599
Proceedings of TRITIUM 2013 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-T88
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In the decommissioning project of tritium handling laboratories or/and facilities, oils such as used in the vacuum pumps have been left conventionally in their comprehensive facilities. Existence of oils, especially highly-contaminated with tritium, is becoming one of the serious problems in projects for decommissioning tritium handling laboratories because of no disposal way of the tritiated waste oils. Experiments using bubblers were carried out to examine the tritium contamination and decontamination of a volume of rotary-vacuum-pump-oil. Contamination of pump oil was observed by bubbling with tritiated water vapor and tritiated hydrogen gas. And then, subsequent decontamination of tritiated oil was processed by bubbling with pure water vapor and dry argon gas. The bubbling with water vapor was more effective than with the dry gas. Experimental results show that the water vapor bubbling in an oil bottle can remove tritium efficiently from the contaminated oil into another water-bubbling bottle.