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MARVEL team shares lessons learned through microreactor development
On June 1 at the American Nuclear Society’s Annual Conference in Denver, Colo., a team from Idaho National Laboratory presented a session titled “Lessons Learned from MARVEL Reactor Fabrication.” The presentation highlighted challenges that arose as they moved from design to manufacturing and assembly, with a focus on reactor part fabrication, Stirling engine implementation, and reactivity control system development.
Truong V. Vo, Brian W. Smith, Frederic A. Simonen, Steven R. Doctor
Nuclear Technology | Volume 92 | Number 3 | December 1990 | Pages 291-299
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A16231
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To provide a technical basis for improved in-service inspection (ISI) plans, Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) has developed and applied a method that uses results of probabilistic risk assessment to establish piping system ISI priorities. In the PNL program, the feasibility of generic ISI guidances is being conducted in two phases. Phase I identifies and prioritizes the systems most relevant to plant safety. These evaluations lead to the development of comprehensive ISI guidances for pressure boundary systems and components that take place in Phase II.