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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.
Hiromichi Fumoto, Erich Zimmer, Erich R. Merz, Atsuyuki Suzuki, Ryohei Kiyose
Nuclear Technology | Volume 77 | Number 2 | May 1987 | Pages 187-193
Technical Paper | Chemical Processing | doi.org/10.13182/NT87-A33983
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Two 38-mm-diam, 5-m-high pulse columns are investigated to evaluate the droplet diameters and axial mixing in the comparison of the aqueous to organic continuous mode of operation. It is observed that the average droplet diameters are dominated by pulse intensity and are independent of throughputs. Through the evaluation of axial eddy diffusivities, it is concluded that the axial diffusivity coefficient depends mainly on pulse intensity, and the value for the disperged phase is similar to that for the continuous phase at the same pulse intensity.
