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NextEra Energy, which said last year it is exploring restarting the shuttered Duane Arnold Energy Center nuclear power plant near Palo, will submit an environmental report to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission by this fall.

During a pre-submittal meeting Thursday, the NRC’s Project Manager Kimberly Conway said that once the plant’s owner, NextEra Energy, submits its environmental report, the Commission will prepare an environmental assessment of its own regarding a restart of the facility.

Duane Arnold opened in 1974 under the ownership of what is now Alliant Energy. When the plant closed in 2020 , it employed more than 500 people.

Now, NextEra Energy, which bought the plant in 2005, i

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