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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.
M. Zucchetti, A. Ciampichetti
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 56 | Number 2 | August 2009 | Pages 814-818
Safety and Environment | Eighteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST56-814
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Ignitor is a nuclear fusion experiment aimed at studying Deuterium-Tritium plasmas. If European proposed waste management strategies were applied, all Ignitor radioactive materials could be recycled or declassified to non-radioactive material. We have applied the Italian waste management regulations to the IGNITOR experiment radioactive materials: none of them should be classified in the High Level Waste category but the vessel, and most materials are classified as LLW (Low Level Waste). The machine has very low radiological risks and environmental impact.