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NRC looks to leverage previous approvals for large LWRs
During this time of resurging interest in nuclear power, many conversations have centered on one fundamental problem: Electricity is needed now, but nuclear projects (in recent decades) have taken many years to get permitted and built.
In the past few years, a bevy of new strategies have been pursued to fix this problem. Workforce programs that seek to laterally transition skilled people from other industries, plans to reuse the transmission infrastructure at shuttered coal sites, efforts to restart plants like Palisades or Duane Arnold, new reactor designs that build on the legacy of research done in the early days of atomic power—all of these plans share a common throughline: leveraging work already done instead of starting over from square one to get new plants designed and built.
D. K. Murdoch, R. Lässer, M. Glugla, A. Mack
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 48 | Number 1 | July-August 2005 | Pages 3-10
Technical Paper | Tritium Science and Technology - Tritium Processing, Transportation, and Storage | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A869
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The European Participant Team (PT) of the ITER project has developed coherent designs, validated in a comprehensive R&D programme, of the main systems which form the inner loop of the ITER Fuel Cycle (FC), consisting of the cryopumps (CP), mechanical backing pumps (RP), Torus Exhaust Processing (TEP), Isotope Separation System (ISS), Storage and Delivery System (SDS), and the Analytical System (ANS). The key objectives of the designs are flexibility to accommodate the different machine operating modes and parameter variations expected, minimization of global tritium inventory, and the use of robust, simple processing concepts to ensure longevity and ease of operation. The configuration of each of the systems has been frozen as a basis for a full investigation of the process performance, while the detailed mechanical and electrical design will be completed after site selection, as this may influence some details of the component selection and layout.
