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NWMO to select Canadian repository site this year
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization, a not-for-profit organization responsible for the long-term management of the country’s intermediate- and high-level radioactive waste, is set to select a site for a deep geologic repository by the end of the year.
Haihua Zhao, Lambert Fick, Alexander Heald, Quan Zhou, Samuel Richesson, Noah Sutton, Brandon Haugh
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 5 | May 2023 | Pages 813-839
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2106724
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To meet the Kairos Power (KP) Fluoride Salt-Cooled High-Temperature Reactor (FHR) (KP-FHR) development and commercialization schedules, the System Analysis Module (SAM), which is an advanced systems code for Generation IV liquid-cooled reactors developed at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), has been selected as the basis for the development of the KP-FHR systems code KP-SAM. This allows for an accelerated joint development effort between the KP and ANL teams. This paper presents a general overview of the KP-SAM development process, its current status, completed verification, and ongoing validation efforts. KP-SAM development follows the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Evaluation Model Development and Assessment Process framework. SAM is a high-order fully implicit transient systems code written in C++. The SAM software design, major physical models, and Jacobian Free Newton Krylov–based numerical methods are briefly discussed. KP-SAM has matured enough to be used for the unvalidated demonstration safety analysis for the low-power KP-FHR test reactor (Hermes) as part of Preliminary Safety Analysis Report work. By following the guidance of an internal KP-FHR thermal fluid Phenomena Identification and Ranking Table report, some of the most important separate-effects-test validations were completed for the first iteration. A scaled integral-effects test is under detailed design and will be built in 2022 to provide key data to validate KP-SAM for licensing safety analysis.