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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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1856-1860
Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40031
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ICF dry wall components of high temperature materials are analyzed for temperature response, thermal stress and mechanical stress from induced vibration. The effects of temperature-dependent conductivity and elasticity are assessed for components subjected to sequential heat flux pulses. Graphite, unirradiated and irradiated silcon carbide are considered. It is shown that since graphite has a negative conductivity change and positive modulus change with increasing temperature, the difference between the variable and constant property solutions for stress can be significant, particularly for smaller pulse widths. Such differences are not as great for silicon carbide due to a decreasing modulus with increasing temperature.