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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.
Xiong Yifu, Song Jiangfeng, Luo Deli, Lei Qianghua, Chen Chang’an
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 3 | April 2015 | Pages 647-649
Proceedings of TRITIUM 2013 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-T101
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TiN+TiC+TiN multiple films are deposited on the surface of 1Cr18Ni9Ti stainless steel by ion-beam assisted deposition technology. The characteristics of films are tested by XPS, SEM and XRD, which showed that the film are compact and uniform with a thickness of about 15μm, and have a good adherence with the substrate below 773 K. The diffraction peaks in the XRD patterns for TiC and TiN are broadened, implying that the multiple films are deposited on the surface of 1Cr18Ni9Ti stainless steel. Meanwhile, the C-H bonded CH4-appears in the infrared spectra of multiple films, suggesting that the CH4- is in a static state, so hydrogen atom cannot migrate from the site bonded with carbon to a neighboring site. The deuterium permeability in 1Cr18Ni9Ti stainless steel coated with multiple films is 2-3 orders of magnitude lower than that in pure 1Cr18Ni9Ti stainless steel substrate from 473 K to 773 K.