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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.
Sarah Goujard, Aurélie Zentz, Christelle Pontier, Véronique Durand, Pauline Valois
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 82 | Number 5 | July 2026 | Pages 974-985
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2025.2521597
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In the French Simulation Program, poly(alpha-methylstyrene) (PAMS) microshells serve as mandrels for capsules used within inertial confinement fusion targets on the LMJ (Laser MégaJoule). Controlled double emulsions are employed to produce micrometer- to millimeter-sized water-in-oil-in-water emulsions, which are subsequently dried and emptied to solidify the mandrels while avoiding surface or sphericity defects. This work evaluates two injection systems, mechanical and pressure-driven, for the production of triphasic emulsions. The pressure-driven system demonstrated superior control over flow dispersions across all three injected phases, offering enhanced injection monitoring and early detection of anomalies. Optical measurements of dried PAMS mandrels with a common diameter of 1900 µm, often used in laser experiments, revealed significantly improved characteristics when produced using the pressure-driven system. These improvements included reduced standard deviation and narrower diameter ranges.