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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.
Hisashi Tanigawa, Masaki Taniguchi, Satoru Tanaka
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 872-876
Fusion Blanket and Shield Technology (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963722
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We have investigated the interaction between hydrogen isotopes and defects in Li2O, using Fourier transform infrared absorption spectroscopy (FT-IR). Multiple peaks were observed in the O–D stretching vibration region with Li2O single crystals which were treated by thermal absorption and quenching. These peaks had different dependence on temperature and were attributable to the stretching vibrations of O–D in bulk Li2O with or without defects. We have also studied the nature of hydrogen isotopes in Li2O with defects by the ab-initio quantum chemical calculation technique. The influence of defects on hydroxyl groups is discussed.
