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UIUC submits MMR construction permit application
The University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign, in partnership with Nano Nuclear Energy, has submitted a construction permit application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for construction of a Kronos micro modular reactor (MMR). This is the first major step in the two-part 10 CFR Part 50 licensing process for the research and test reactor and is the culmination of years of technical refinement and regulatory alignment.
The team chose to engage with the NRC in a preapplication readiness assessment, providing the agency with draft versions of the majority of the CPA’s technical content for feedback, which is expected to ensure a high-quality application.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 4 | November 2011 | Pages 1317-1322
Detritiation and Isotope Separation | Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12672
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The CAPER facility operated at the Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe for the demonstration of the tokamak exhaust processing system comprises a PERMCAT reactor as final clean-up stage. CAPER has been upgraded to enable the production of highly tritiated water (HTW) to be detritiated with PERMCAT. A staged approach for HTW production in CAPER is ongoing, using currently a metal oxide reactor, and later a micro-channel catalytic reactor. The whole experimental plan using the current single-tube PERMCAT reactor shall cover the HTW processing at flow rates up to 10 mL/min, with HTW up to 1.4 MCi/kg (i.e. stoichiometric DTO). The staged approach and corresponding CAPER modifications are described. The first experimental results obtained using metal oxide reactor are reported and discussed.
