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Aalo breaks ground in Idaho
Eight days after Aalo Atomics released the details of its securing of $100 million in Series B funding, the company announced that it has broken ground on the 50-MWe Aalo-X. Sited in the desert beside Idaho National Laboratory, it will be the company’s first nuclear power plant, and it remains on track to go on line by July 4, 2026.
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Nuclear Technology | Volume 87 | Number 2 | October 1989 | Pages 457-460
Technical Paper | TMI-2: Health Physics and Environmental Release / Nuclfar Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A27737
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Reactor coolant circulation following the Three Mile Island Unit 2 core destruction distributed fuel within the reactor coolant system and into the connected auxiliary systems. The collection sites generally were the low points, the horizontal surfaces, and, to a lesser extent, the vertical surfaces. The affected auxiliary systems included the reactor coolant drain tank, the letdown system, the makeup and purification system, the liquid waste systems, and the reactor coolant pump seal return lines. Steam flow to the steam generators could only move small particles (<1 mm). Smoke formation during core degradation accounted for much of the film formation in the upper elevations of the coolant system. Restart of the reactor coolant pumps accounts for the larger particles found in the steam generators.