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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.
Daewon Kim, Yun-Sam Kim, Kyoungyong Noh, Misuk Jang, Seoungrae Kim
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 194 | Number 12 | December 2020 | Pages 1162-1174
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2020.1777023
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The safe management of radiation sources and wastes is one of the most important elements in operating nuclear power plants (NPPs). Safe management requires periodically measuring radiation during the operation and decommissioning of NPPs, but it is impossible for radiation management systems to cover all areas, and it may be necessary for a person to measure radiation directly where the risk is high or where it is difficult to measure radiation. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a robot that performs autonomous driving and wall climbing. Active sealing and vacuum suction technologies were used for this robot in order to move existing robots to difficult places. In addition, it is possible to perform nondestructive testing as well as radiation measurements in places such as dry cask storage systems.