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Here is a recap of recent industry happenings:
Supply chain contract signed for Aurora
Oklo, the California-based developer of the Aurora Powerhouse sodium-cooled fast-neutron reactor, has signed a contract with Siemens Energy that is meant to de-risk supply chain and production timeline challenges for Oklo. Under the terms, Siemens will design and deliver the power conversion system for the Powerhouse, which is to be deployed at Idaho National Laboratory.
R. W. Schaefer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 103 | Number 2 | October 1989 | Pages 196-209
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE89-5
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Experiments done in several critical assemblies of the liquid-metal-cooled fast reactor type simulated core axial expansion, core radial expansion and bowing, coolant expansion, and control driveline expansion. For the most part, new experimental techniques were developed to perform these experiments. Calculations of the experiments basically used design-level methods except when it was necessary to investigate complexities peculiar to the experiments. It was found that these feedback reactivities generally are overpredicted, but the predictions are within 30% of the experimental values.