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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.
Patrick Dumaz
Nuclear Technology | Volume 87 | Number 4 | December 1989 | Pages 946-955
Technical Paper | TMI-2: Decontamination and Waste Management / Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A27688
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Within the framework of the Three Mile Island Unit 2 Analysis Exercise, the calculation of phases I and 2 of the accident (0 to 174 min) was performed with the computer code CA THARE 1 and with a preliminary version of CATHARE 1/ICARE. The initial transient (0 to 30 min) is accurately predicted by CATHARE. From the thermal-hydraulic point of view, the remainder of phase 1 has also been very well simulated, even though for the overall problem, this particular part of phase 1 did not prove to be nearly as difficult. The analysis of phase 2 is limited because the computer code does not calculate material relocation. Nevertheless, cladding ballooning and cladding oxidation seem to be correctly predicted.