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Webinar: MC&A and safety in advanced reactors in focus
Towell
Russell
Prasad
The American Nuclear Society’s Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division recently hosted a webinar on updating material control and accounting (MC&A) and security regulations for the evolving field of advanced reactors.
Moderator Shikha Prasad (CEO, Srijan LLC) was joined by two presenters, John Russell and Lester Towell, who looked at how regulations that were historically developed for traditional light water reactors will apply to the next generation of nuclear technology and what changes need to be made.
S. D. Bondarenko, I. A. Alekseev, O. A. Fedorchenko, K. A. Konoplev, Т. V. Vasyanina
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 71 | Number 4 | May 2017 | Pages 605-609
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1290484
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Heavy water is used as a neutron moderator and coolant in nuclear power and research reactors. During operation of heavy water reactors, heavy water becomes contaminated with tritium and protium. Protium comes from various sources, such as a result of isotope exchange from constructional materials and sorbents, from the atmosphere as water vapor, and from the faulty equipment in the form of water. Tritium is produced in heavy water owing to neutron capture by deuterium atoms. Thus, heavy water reactors require facilities to keep deuterium concentrations within operating margins and remove tritium. A schematic diagram of a detritiation plant has been developed to maintain the characteristics of heavy water in the reflector of reactor. The plant is designed to address the problems related to management of heavy water at the reactor site. Protium recovery capacity of the plant is not a fixed value. It can vary widely depending on the actual leakage of light water in a heavy water reactor loop. The initial data for modeling were obtained in the course of long-term operation of EVIO pilot plant. The evaluation of the basic parameters of the installation has been done using computer models.