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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.
Hiroshige Kumamaru
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 3 | April 2021 | Pages 235-249
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1874767
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Numerical calculations have been performed on liquid-metal magnetohydrodynamic flows through a rectangular channel in the magnetic field inlet region and magnetic field outlet region. The conservation equations of fluid mass and fluid momentum and the Poisson equation for electrical potential have been solved numerically. The numerical calculations have been carried out for Hartmann (Ha) numbers up to the order of 10 000 and a rectangular channel with electrically conducting channel walls. Attention is focused on pressure drops along the flow channel in the magnetic field inlet region and outlet region. The loss coefficients ζ can be represented by for both the magnetic field inlet region and outlet region, where k is a coefficient, and Ha, Re, and β are the Hartmann number, the Reynolds number, and the channel aspect ratio, respectively. The coefficient k depends on the gradient of applied magnetic field in the magnetic field inlet region and outlet region. However, the coefficient k does not change with the Ha number, the Re number, the wall conductivity number, and the aspect ratio very much.