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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.
X. R. Wang, S. Malang, A. R. Raffray, ARIES Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 56 | Number 2 | August 2009 | Pages 1023-1027
Divertors and High Heat Flux Components | Eighteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST09-A9045
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A helium-cooled plate-type divertor design concept has being proposed within the framework of the ARIES power plant study. W tiles are used as sacrificial armor, W-alloy as main structural material and advanced ODS (oxide dispersion-strengthened) steel as the coolant manifold. An impinging jet cooling scheme is employed to enhance the heat transfer characteristics of the concept in the high heat flux zone. This paper describes the design optimization of the helium-cooled plate divertor through parametric studies including thermo-fluid and thermo-mechanical analyses.