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U.K. consents to Hinkley Point B decommissioning
The U.K. government’s Office for Nuclear Regulation has granted EDF Energy formal consent to decommission the Hinkley Point B nuclear power plant in Somerset, England. The two-unit advanced gas-cooled reactor was permanently shut down in August 2022, and site owner EDF applied to ONR for decommissioning consent in August 2024.
J. P. Herzog, M. L. Corradini
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 2 | March 1989 | Pages 979-983
Safety And Environment — II | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A39820
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An experiment has been performed to investigate the chemical reaction between the liquid phases of the eutectic lithium-lead (Li17Pb83) and water. The reactants and products were constrained within a closed reaction vessel, allowing the extent of reaction to be determined from the partial pressure of the hydrogen reaction product. The data from the tests showed that the extent of reaction did not depend upon the initial water temperature. The data also indicated that the extent of reaction passed through a maximum as the initial liquid metal temperature was varied from 350 to 500 C, and a model was developed to explain this behavior.aWork performed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
