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A new ANSI/ANS standard for liquid metal fire protection published
ANSI/ANS-54.8-2025, Liquid Metal Fire Protection in LMR Plants, received approval from the American National Standards Institute on September 2 and is now available for purchase.
The 2025 edition is a reinvigoration of the withdrawn ANS-54.8-1988 of the same title. The Advanced Reactor Codes and Standards Collaborative (ARCSC) identified the need for a current version of the standard via an industry survey.
Typical liquid metal reactor designs use liquid sodium as the coolant for both the primary and intermediate heat-transport systems. In addition, liquid sodium and NaK (a mixture of sodium and potassium that is liquid at room temperature) are often used in auxiliary heat-removal systems. Since these liquid metals can react readily with oxygen, water, and other compounds, special precautions must be taken in the design, construction, testing, and maintenance of the sodium/NaK systems to ensure that the potential for leakage is very small.
J. Ligou, C. Mignot
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 19 | Number 1 | May 1964 | Pages 58-73
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A19789
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This article is devoted to an extension of Galanin's heterogeneous theory to the tridimensional problems usually met in studies of small reactors. Clearly, this method is also applicable to bidimensional problems. Here also, it brings in several improvements compared with the parent theory, especially concerning the radial reflector, which can here be of finite dimensions. Significant numerical examples are given in the final section. The codes used—for the IBM 7090 computer—lead to times of calculation which are reasonable for small reactors. They may also be used for much bigger reactors provided that they are used to treat bidimensional problems only.