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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.
Takeo Muroga, Hideo Watanabe, Ken-Ichi Fukumoto, Manabu Satou, Akihiko Kimura, Steven J. Zinkle, Naoyuki Hashimoto, David T. Hoelzer, A. Lou Qualls
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 44 | Number 2 | September 2003 | Pages 450-454
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Fusion Materials | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A376
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The Varying Temperature Irradiation Experiment in the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) was carried out in the framework of the Japan-USA fusion cooperation program (JUPITER). The objective of the experiment is to investigate the performance of fusion structural materials subject to temperature variation during operation. The experiment will also contribute to re-examining the available fission