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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.
Kazunori Sasaki, Naotaka Terashita, Takamichi Ogino
Nuclear Technology | Volume 85 | Number 3 | June 1989 | Pages 259-273
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34248
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A pressurized water reactor plant analyzer code (NUPAC-1) has been developed to apply to an operator support system or an advanced training simulator. The simulation code must produce reasonably accurate results as well as run in a fast mode for realizing functions such as anomaly detection, estimation of unobservable plant internal states, and prediction of plant state trends. The NUPAC-1 code adopts fast computing methods, i.e., the table fitting method of the state variables, time-step control, and calculation control of heat transfer coefficients, in order to attain accuracy and fast-running capability. The NUPAC-1 results are compared with the RELAP5/MOD2 results to assess the accuracy for accident analyses such as loss of coolant, feedwater line break, and steam generator tube rupture. The fast computing methods had a negligibly small effect on accuracy and contributed to fast-running capability. The NUPAC-1 code can be applied to the operator support system and the advanced training simulator as a two-phase simulation code.