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On North Carolina's ratification of Senate Bill 266
I have been a North Carolinian for 62 years and involved in the state’s nuclear energy industry from my high school days to today. I have seen firsthand how North Carolina has flourished. This growth has been due to the state’s enterprising people and strong leaders. Clean, competitive, and always-on nuclear power has also played an important role.
Anton Moisseytsev, Matthew Bucknor, James J. Sienicki
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 196 | Number 1 | October 2022 | Pages S323-S336
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2021.2018925
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Because the Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) uses sodium as a primary and secondary coolant, an analysis of postulated sodium leaks that could result in sodium fires is needed for VTR safety analysis. The goals of such an analysis include, among other topics, determination of temperature and pressure loadings on the reactor building from sodium fires. This paper provides a description of sodium spray and pool fire analysis tool development at Argonne National Laboratory for application to the VTR and includes validation against available data from sodium fire experiments.