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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.
Klaus Leinemann, Rainer Meyder, Horst Schnauder, Dieter Smidt
Nuclear Technology | Volume 71 | Number 1 | October 1985 | Pages 125-130
Technical Paper | Fission Rector | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33714
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The operators of nuclear power plants are generally trained to handle a standardized set of typical accidents. This set is designed to define a package containing the event combinations that might be hypothesized. Because of the large number of hypothetical events, diagnostic ability requires continuous training. The development of, and experience with, a flexible training device is described that basically presents realtime scenarios. It could be shown that even complex events can be displayed successfully. Real plant transients as well as those calculated with sophisticated computer codes can be displayed. Test sessions with responsible technical personnel at reactor plants in the Federal Republic of Germany demonstrated the capabilities of the system.