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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.
Charles Jacquemart, Mabruk Methnani, Juan Jaliff, Sigurd Børresen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 84 | Number 1 | January 1989 | Pages 108-112
Technical Paper | Technique | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34200
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An on-line core supervision system, “CORE MASTER,” has been installed at the boiling water reactor (BWR)-6 plant of Kernkraftwerk Leibstadt. The system, based on the three-dimensional nodal simulator PRESTO, has been a valuable support tool for on-line core monitoring and tracking of thermal margins, predictive calculations, and on-line data management and display.
