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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.
H. O. Menlove, J. E. Swansen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 71 | Number 2 | November 1985 | Pages 497-505
Technical Paper | Analyses | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33701
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A new, high-performance neutron time correlation, or coincidence, counter has been developed for the measurement of nuclear materials. This detector is an improvement over the high-level neutron coincidence counter that was used previously in that it has better counting rate capability, electronic stability, noise resistance, uniform counting zone, and portability. The system uses 3He gas tubes coupled to the shift register coincidence electronics through a new hybrid charge-sensitive preamplifier/discriminator. Counting rates of 1.3 MHz have been obtained and a counting stability of 0.002% has been measured. The system has been applied to the assay of plutonium content in metal, PuO2, and PuF4, as well as in uranium-plutonium mixtures.