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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.
Adly B. Wahba, Fritz Steinhoff
Nuclear Technology | Volume 87 | Number 4 | December 1989 | Pages 1086-1096
Late Paper | TMI-2: Decontamination and Waste Management / Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A27699
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The thermal-hydraulic code A THLET used to analyze the Three Mile Island Unit 2 accident was developed at the Gesellschaft für Reaktorsicherheit in the Federal Republic of Germany for safety analysis of pressurized water reactors with U-tube steam generators. First calculations of phase 1 of the accident without simulating the secondary sides were preliminary and have shown the need for accurate heat flow rates in the steam generators. The available values resulted in an incorrect system pressure behavior. Second calculations with detailed simulation of the once-through steam generator provided interesting information like the influence of flow resistance in the aspirator on cold-leg temperature and the dependence of system behavior on the rate and position of auxiliary feedwater injection.