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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.
D. C. Goodelman, A. M. Engwall-Holmes, G. V. Taylor, B. J. Bocklund, D. J. Strozzi, S. J. Shin, E. Kim, N. Vishnoi, S. O. Kucheyev, L. B. Bayu Aji
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 82 | Number 5 | July 2026 | Pages 1023-1033
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2025.2545591
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Hohlraum temperature calculations with the model by J. H. Hammer and M. D. Rosen predict a higher X-ray drive from Ta-W-Au-Bi high-entropy alloys compared to pure Au and recently developed Ta4Au and Au-Bi hohlraums. Here, we study the microstructure and properties of µm-thick Ta-W-Au-Bi alloy films deposited via combinatorial direct-current magnetron sputtering. All of the films have promising physical properties, including high electrical resistivity, that satisfy the requirements for magnetically assisted inertial confinement fusion experiments. While porosity tends to increase with increasing Bi content, we also found that films with Bi content > 44 at. exhibited densification close to the substrate/film interface and formed a single-phase alloy. These findings provide a potential path forward for the development of Ta-W-Au-Bi alloys for next-generation hohlraum materials.