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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.
R. D. Smirnov, J. Guterl, S. I. Krasheninnikov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 71 | Number 1 | January 2017 | Pages 75-83
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST16-125
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The new reaction-diffusion code FACE (First wAll simulation CodE) is developed for modeling plasma-material–interaction processes taking place in the first wall of fusion devices. The code simulates implantation, desorption, transport, and interaction of an arbitrary number of particle and quasi-particle species, such as dissolved gases and intrinsic or induced defects, in a wall material. It allows descriptive and predictive modeling of retention and outgassing of plasma constituents in plasma-exposed materials for analysis of experimental data and assessment of performance of plasma-facing components under various static and transient plasma conditions. The physical model, capabilities, future development, and example applications of the code are presented.