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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.
M. Usman Naseer, F. Deeba, S. I. W. Shah, S. Hussain, A. Qayyum
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 76 | Number 8 | November 2020 | Pages 947-956
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2020.1820748
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Photodiodes masked with narrow-band filters have been used to obtain the temporal profiles of Hα and Hβ line emissions in the pre-ionization phase of hydrogen discharge in the MT-I Spherical Tokamak. The line ratio method relating the emission intensities of the above mentioned lines, having different excitation thresholds, provides the temporal profile of electron temperature. A triple Langmuir probe array having three individual sets of triple probes, arranged linearly, has also been used to measure the temporal profile of electron temperature at three different radial positions simultaneously. Additionally, a spectrometer HR4000+ is used to get the line-integrated emission intensity of H-Balmer lines. The objective of this experiment is to demonstrate the successful development of the optical and electric probe as a diagnostic tool for tokamak discharge.