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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. Satake, H. Sawamura, M. Kimura, T. Kunugi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 68 | Number 3 | October 2015 | Pages 640-643
Technical Paper | Proceedings of TOFE-2014 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-956
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In this work, a simulation is presented that plays an important part in estimating the characteristics of cooling in a blanket used for high-temperature plasma in a fusion reactor. The objective of this study is to perform a large-scale direct numerical simulation (DNS) on the heat transfer of turbulent flow of the coolant materials assumed gas flow. The coolant flow conditions in a fusion reactor are assumed to be defined by a Reynolds number of a higher order. To investigate the effect of Reynolds number on the scalar structures, the Reynolds number based on a friction velocity and a pipe radius was set to be Reτ = 1050. The numbers of the computational grid points used for Reτ= 1050 were 2048 × 512 × 768 in the z−, r−, and ϕ-directions, respectively. In this work, details on the turbulent quantities such as the mean flow, turbulent stresses, turbulent kinetic energy budget, and the turbulent statistics were obtained.