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With about seven months left in the race to bring DOE-authorized test reactors on line by July 4, 2026, via the Reactor Pilot Program, Deep Fission has announced that it will break ground on its associated project on December 9 in Parsons, Kansas. It’s one of many companies in the program that has made significant headway in recent months.
Luigi Di Pace, Didier Tarabelli, Dominique You
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 733-737
Safety and Environment | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963701
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This paper summarizes the work done to update the PACTOLE code, developed for Pressurized Water Reactors (PWRs) to predict the level of activated corrosion products in their cooling loops. The aim is to use it in safety analysis for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project.
In particular the adaptation has focused on the implementation of copper as a new element in the code by using the findings obtained from “ad hoc” experimental tests. The updated release of the code, named PACTITER, has been extensively used to predict in particular the source term inventory of the ITER divertor primary heat transfer system (PHTS) and the related collective dose to the staff in the supporting activities for the Non-Site Specific Safety Report n.2 (NSSR-2).