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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.
Paul A. Smith
Nuclear Technology | Volume 92 | Number 3 | December 1990 | Pages 363-373
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A16237
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The results of a diffusion-sorption experiment, using simulated groundwater spiked with a mixture of I25I, 85Sr, and 137Cs, are modeled by a one-dimensional porous-medium approach in which sorption is described by Freundlich isotherms. The governing equations are solved analytically for the special case of a linear isotherm and numerically using the RANCH-DIFF computer code for nonlinear isotherms. A set of time-dependent ordinary differential equations is obtained using the Lagrange interpolation technique and is integrated by Gear’s variable-order predictor-corrector method. The analysis allows the diffusion coefficients and parameters of the Freundlich isotherms to be extracted from the experimental data. It is shown that the sorption behavior of 85Sr can be modeled successfully by a linear isotherm, using a sorption parameter consistent with batch-sorption tests. The behavior of 137Cs may be modeled by a nonlinear isotherm, but the amount of 137Cs sorbed is less than that anticipated from batch-sorption tests. Iodine-125 is assumed to be nonsorbing and is used to determine the porosity of the rock.