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Getting back to yes: A local perspective on decommissioning, restart, and responsibility
For 45 years, Duane Arnold Energy Center operated in Linn County, Ia., near the town of Palo and just northwest of Cedar Rapids. The facility, owned by NextEra Energy, was the only nuclear power plant in the state.
In August 2020, a historic derecho swept across eastern Iowa with winds approaching 140 miles per hour. Damage to the plant’s cooling towers accelerated a shutdown that had already been planned, and the facility entered decommissioning soon after, with its fuel removed in October of that year. Iowa’s only nuclear plant had gone off line.
Today the national energy landscape looks very different than it did just six short years ago. Electricity demand is rising rapidly as data centers, artificial intelligence infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, and electrification expand across the country. Reliable, carbon-free baseload power has become increasingly valuable. In that context, Linn County has approved the rezoning necessary to support the recommissioning and restart of Duane Arnold and is actively supporting NextEra’s efforts to secure the remaining state and federal approvals.
Yongjian Xu, Li Zhang, Ling Yu, Yahong Xie, Caichao Jiang, Lizhen Liang, Jianglong Wei, Yuanlai Xie, Chundong Hu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 73 | Number 4 | May 2018 | Pages 533-538
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1392820
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An important feature of the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) project is the additional heating obtained from the injection of neutral beams based on accelerated negative ions. For the neutral beams based on negative ions, the most important measurements are beam uniformity, beamlet divergence, and stripping losses. According to the CFETR requirement, the maximum allowed beam divergence angle and beam nonuniformity are 6 mrads and ±10%, respectively. As one-dimensional (1-D) carbon tiles have large ratio between perpendicular conductivity and parallel conductivity and high stability, they can be used for beam uniformity and beamlet divergence measurement. This paper investigates the influence on the response of 1-D carbon tile having the thermal characteristics and features of some dedicated diagnostics. Simulations show that it will be possible to verify experimentally whether the beam meets the requirement about the maximum allowed value. This work lays a foundation for design and application of high-precision beam diagnostic targets.