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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.
Sadamu Sawai, Yonesuke Iwakoshi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 86 | Number 3 | September 1989 | Pages 219-232
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34290
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The recent worldwide trend toward a stable uranium supply, slow growth in energy demand, and the progress in light water reactor technology necessitates much improvement in fast breeder reactor (FBR) technology if FBRs are to be commercially feasible and a stable future energy supply ensured. Commercialization of the FBR is now generally expected to be realized in the 2020s to 2030s, and much effort is being expended worldwide in upgrading FBR technology. In Japan, FBR development has the following goals:
