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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
M. Broc, J. Sannier, G. Santarini
Nuclear Technology | Volume 63 | Number 2 | November 1983 | Pages 197-208
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT83-A33280
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A set of experimental studies is presented as a first approach to the problems that liquid-lead circuits might pose in the molten salt reactor design with cooling by direct contact between the salt and this liquid metal. Technologically it appears that the components of circuits developed for the use of liquid sodium in fast neutron breeder reactors (valves, electromagnetic pumps and flowmeters, pressure transducers, and cold traps) can be used in the presence of liquid lead, though with certain restrictions. Where corrosion is concerned, ferritic steels, although subject to mass transfer phenomena, are much more resistant than austenitic steels at the temperatures currently adopted in the molten salt reactor design. Finally, liquid lead could have a slight embrittling effect on ferritic steels, but this phenomenon needs to be checked more thoroughly.
