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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.
Yu. P. Martseniuk, Yu. V. Kovtun, V. E. Moiseenko, A. V. Lozin, A. N. Shapoval, O. V. Yevsiukov, V. B. Korovin, E. D. Kramskoy, M. M. Kozulya, D. I. Baron
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 81 | Number 6 | August 2025 | Pages 530-541
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2025.2478541
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For the stellarator Uragan-2M, a glow discharge system for wall conditioning was developed and installed. The experiments were conducted in the range of discharge currents from 0.025 to 1 A and argon working gas pressures from 0.27 to 13.1 Pa. It is found that the measured current-voltage characteristics are similar to the discharge with a hollow cathode. In the optical spectrum of the glow discharge plasma, Ar lines of the excited atoms Ar I (Ar*) and ions Ar II (Ar+*) of the main argon gas, as well as the lines of excited hydrogen atoms H I (H*), are observed. The appearance of hydrogen is associated with the desorption of hydrogen from stainless steel because of the interaction of argon with the surface of the vacuum chamber (cathode). The radial profile of plasma density and electron temperature was measured using a movable triple probe. The maximum plasma density was 7.6 × 1014 m−3, and the plasma temperature was 4.6 eV.