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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Industry Update—May 2025
Here is a recap of industry happenings from the recent past:
TerraPower’s Natrium reactor advances on several fronts
TerraPower has continued making aggressive progress in several areas for its under-construction Natrium Reactor Demonstration Project since the beginning of the year. Natrium is an advanced 345-MWe reactor that has liquid sodium as a coolant, improved fuel utilization, enhanced safety features, and an integrated energy storage system, allowing for a brief power output boost to 500-MWe if needed for grid resiliency. The company broke ground for its first Natrium plant in 2024 near a retiring coal plant in Kemmerer, Wyo.
W. Seifritz
Nuclear Technology | Volume 7 | Number 6 | December 1969 | Pages 513-522
Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT69-A28370
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A newly developed special two-detector cross-correlation experiment of zero-power reactor-noise analysis is applied to determining characteristic kinetic-reactor parameters. This method-called polarity correlation in the frequency domain-is based on the detailed analysis of the stochastic Coherence Function, in contrast to the analysis of auto and/or cross power spectral density functions. The coherence function is easily obtained by polarity correlation of two filtered random-neutron-noise signals simultaneously sampled in a reactor system using neutronsensitive detectors in the current mode of operation. The advantage and the progress in using this technique is both its simplicity and the automatic elimination of the equipment frequency response, which is of special importance when analyzing fast-reactor-noise spectra. A series of prompt-neutron-decay constant measurements was performed on several configurations of the STARK and SNEAK facilities. Moreover, special attention and effort is dedicated to reactivity shutdown measurements by the polarity correlation method. An on-line reactivity meter is described which is particularly suited to making reactivity measurements in large plutonium fueled reactors. Shutdown reactivity measurements were performed down to -8 dollars.