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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.
V. Loffelmann, J. Mlynar, M. Imrisek, D. Mazon, A. Jardin, V. Weinzettl, M. Hron
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 69 | Number 2 | April 2016 | Pages 505-513
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST15-180
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Tomography inversion has been used routinely for processing outputs of plasma radiation diagnostics. Various tomographic algorithms have been developed, with those based on Tikhonov regularization being among the fastest while still providing reliable results. This paper presents a further speed optimization of the minimum Fisher Tikhonov regularization algorithm based on reducing iteration cycles used during the calculation. Ten to twentyfold speed gain is achieved compared to the original implementation. Robustness of the new method is demonstrated using both artificially generated data sets and real data from the soft X-ray diagnostics at the COMPASS tokamak. The advantage gained by the optimization is investigated in particular with respect to the possibility of real-time control of the plasma position; the option of impurity control is also discussed.