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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.
Jan-Ru Tang, Lainsu Kao, Jong-Rong Wang, Ruey-Yng Yuann
Nuclear Technology | Volume 129 | Number 1 | January 2000 | Pages 51-68
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT00-A3045
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The very first work on RETRAN model development and its application to plant design study for the Lungmen nuclear power station (LMNPS) is presented. Lungmen is the fourth nuclear power plant of the Taiwan Power Company (TPC). LMNPS has two advanced boiling water reactor (ABWR) units, each with a thermal power of 3926 MW. The preliminary safety analysis report (PSAR) of LMNPS is currently under review. The Lungmen RETRAN-02/MOD5 model was developed to provide support to TPC in the PSAR review and system design study. An analysis of generator load rejection with failure of all bypass valves was performed against the analysis in the PSAR to benchmark the Lungmen RETRAN model. One of the specific designs of LMNPS is that the reactor has the capability to withstand a full-load rejection or a turbine trip event without a reactor scram. An analysis of generator load rejection with all bypass valves was done to evaluate this design. The results show that this design is appropriate.
