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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.
Jianhang Zhou, Jinglong Zhang, Jie Zhang, Yipo Zhang, Hong Yang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 78 | Number 7 | October 2022 | Pages 588-594
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2022.2090785
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Neutron flux measurement provides essential data for the diagnostic tools that control plasma combustion, equipment maintenance, and radiation safety and reveals key information on plasma physics, machine protection, and control issues. To obtain rapid change of the neutron emission rate by magnetohydrodynamic instabilities, a fast neutron flux measurement system with high time resolution (~10 ) was developed on the HL-2M tokamak (located at Southwestern Institute of Physics, China). The system includes four EJ-410 detectors and four digitizers that we developed ourselves with dedicated field-programmable gate array firmware, including a waveform recording function, real-time count rate measurement, and real-time integration measurement. The simulation results show that the throughput rate of the readout electronics is 96.7% when the input counting rate is 1 mega count per second (Mcps) and the throughput rate could achieve 63.8% when the input counting rate is 6 Mcps. Moreover, when the input counting rate increases further to 10 Mcps, the integration model may be used. Given that this measurement system is highly portable and has a high time resolution, it is suitable for the fast neutron flux diagnostic on the HL-2A tokamak.