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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.
E. Mazzucato
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 76 | Number 7 | October 2020 | Pages 807-813
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2020.1795972
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The paper describes a fusion reactor scheme consisting of two 200-m-long magnetic mirrors with a ratio of two connected by semicircular sections to form a racetrack configuration. The two most serious problems of magnetic mirrors, magnetohydrodynamic stability and end losses, are solved by minimizing the negative curvature of the mirror magnetic field lines and using helical windings in the curved sections to add a positive curvature and strong shear to the magnetic field lines at and beyond the mirror throat and for confining the mirror end losses. The reactor should be capable of producing at least 13 GW of fusion power when operating in deuterium-tritium at the same plasma density and temperature as ITER.