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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.
Aleksei Meshcheryakov, Irina Grishina
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 79 | Number 4 | May 2023 | Pages 476-487
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2023.2174319
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
At the L-2M stellarator, in the electron cyclotron resonance heating regime, the processes of plasma self-organization were studied in different successive phases of plasma confinement during the facility shot. It is shown that in the phase of initial plasma heating, because of the absence of plasma-wall interaction, the canonical pressure profiles of the electronic component are not formed. In the quasi-stationary phase, the forming pressure profiles are close to the canonical one, and the energy loss is somewhat higher than in the phase beginning immediately after switching off the microwave heating pulse. After turning off the microwave pulse, the self-organization processes form the canonical pressure profiles of the electronic component in plasma, which ensure minimal energy loss from the plasma. In this case, the total power of energy losses from the plasma is proportional to the cube of the plasma energy.