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Thorcon project takes forward step in Indonesia
Thorcon International has received official approval from BAPETEN, Indonesia’s nuclear regulator, for a site evaluation plan and site evaluation management system plan for the country’s Kelasa location. According to Thorcon, it is the first-ever nuclear power plant–related licensing approval from the Indonesian government, and it marks the completion of the first step of the company’s nuclear power plant licensing campaign in the country.
Takashi Kodama, Masanao Nakano, Kunio Fujita, Shingo Matsuoka, Yasuo Ito, Chihiro Matsuura, Hirotsugu Shiraishi, Yousuke Katsumura
Nuclear Technology | Volume 180 | Number 1 | October 2012 | Pages 103-110
Technical Paper | Reprocessing | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-45
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Simulated high-level liquid waste was irradiated by 60Co gamma radiation, and changes in the gas-phase concentrations of the products H2, O2, and NOx that accumulated in the absence of sweeping air were measured. The H2 concentration reached a steady-state value of much less than 4% in line with the value predicted from the previously derived mathematical expression. The simulated dissolver solution was also irradiated, and another steady-state H2 concentration of much less than 4% was obtained in accordance with the corresponding predicted value. These experimental results lend strong support for the applicability of a mathematical expression in predicting the H2 concentration in a tank in the case of a sweeping-air function loss.