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NRC approves TerraPower construction permit
Today, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it has approved TerraPower’s construction permit application for Kemmerer Unit 1, the company’s first deployment of Natrium, its flagship sodium fast reactor.
This approval is a significant milestone on three fronts. For TerraPower, it represents another step forward in demonstrating its technology. For the Department of Energy, it reflects progress (despite delays) for the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP). For the NRC, it is the first approval granted to a commercial reactor in nearly a decade—and the first approval of a commercial non–light water reactor in more than 40 years.
Peter Jansson, Martin Bengtsson, Ulrika Bäckström, Francisco Álvarez-Velarde, Dušan Čalič, Stefano Caruso, Ron Dagan, Luca Fiorito, Lydie Giot, Kevin Govers, Augusto Hernandez Solis, Volker Hannstein, Germina Ilas, Marjan Kromar, Jaakko Leppänen, Marita Mosconi, Pedro Ortego, Rita Plukienė, Arturas Plukis, Anssu Ranta-Aho, Dimitri Rochman, Linus Ros, Shunsuke Sato, Peter Schillebeeckx, Ahmed Shama, Teodosi Simeonov, Alexey Stankovskiy, Holly Trellue, Stefano Vaccaro, Vanessa Vallet, Marc Verwerft, Gašper Žerovnik, Anders Sjöland
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 196 | Number 9 | September 2022 | Pages 1125-1145
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2053489
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The decay heat rate of five spent nuclear fuel assemblies of the pressurized water reactor type were measured by calorimetry at the interim storage for spent nuclear fuel in Sweden. Calculations of the decay heat rate of the five assemblies were performed by 20 organizations using different codes and nuclear data libraries resulting in 31 results for each assembly, spanning most of the current state-of-the-art practice. The calculations were based on a selected subset of information, such as reactor operating history and fuel assembly properties. The relative difference between the measured and average calculated decay heat rate ranged from 0.6% to 3.3% for the five assemblies. The standard deviation of these relative differences ranged from 1.9% to 2.4%.