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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.
Daniel F. Giessing
Nuclear Technology | Volume 87 | Number 1 | August 1989 | Pages 298-301
Technical Paper | TMI-2: Materials Behavior / Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A27657
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The Three Mile Island (TMI) accident represents the only full-scale integrated facility data for a severe nuclear power reactor accident. As a result of this accident, an extensive, worldwide effort was initiated to develop the understanding and analytical tools to analyze severe accidents. The data required to understand and document the accident progression have been extracted throughout the accident recovery and cleanup process. At the same time, several severe accident codes reached a stage of development where a comparison with the actual event could be attempted. A unique opportunity existed, therefore, to benchmark the severe accident analysis computer codes. Such an effort is nearing completion, with the cooperation of the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations, in the form of the TMI Analysis Exercise. The exercise began in October 1987 and is scheduled for completion in early 1990. Some 13 participants, representing 9 countries, are presently involved in this effort. It is hoped that the completion of the exercise will result in an international consensus on code assessment and severe accident predictive capabilities.