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DOE fast tracks test reactor projects: What to know
The Department of Energy today unveiled 10 companies racing to bring test reactors online by next year to meet Trump's deadline of next Independance Day, leveraging a new DOE pathway that allows reactor authorization outside national labs. As first outlined in one of the four executive orders on nuclear energy released by President Trump on May 23 and in the request for applications for the Reactor Pilot Program released June 18, the companies must use their own money and sites—and DOE authorization—to get reactors operating. What they won’t need is a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license.
C. L. Schuske, J. D. McCarthy
Nuclear Technology | Volume 26 | Number 3 | July 1975 | Pages 254-264
Technical Paper | Chemical Processing | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24427
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The large scale use of borosilicate glass raschig rings for the storage of plutonium nitrate and enriched uranyl nitrate solutions began at the Rocky Flats Plant (RFP) in 1959. Much has been learned since that date in the use of these rings. Some of the problems encountered with raschig rings are (a) corrosion of rings; (b) settling of the rings; (c) chipping and cracking which have led to pump and drainage problems; (d) silicious deposits on the rings in the storage of uranium solutions; (e) plutonium oxide sludge deposits on rings; and (f) the problem of completely filling conventional domed tanks. Solutions to most of these problems have been found; however, problems (a) and (e) are receiving additional attention at RFP.