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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.
Hisayoshi Mitamura, Seiichiro Matsumoto, William J. Buykx, Shingo Tashiro
Nuclear Technology | Volume 85 | Number 1 | April 1989 | Pages 109-117
Technical Note | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34232
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SYNROC blocks containing 1.61 wt% of the curium source were fabricated for an alpha radiation stability test using the calciner and the hot press, which were newly installed in the hot cell. The calciner could dry and then calcine the curium-doped SYNROC slurry with very little powder carryover. The calcined powder had pour and tap densities of 0.50 and 0.85 g·cm-3, respectively. Four SYNROC blocks with almost equal densities (4.302 to 4.308 g·cm-3) were fabricated by hot pressing.