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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.
Yin-Pang Ma, Bau-Shei Pei, Wei-Keng Lin, Yih-Yun Hsu
Nuclear Technology | Volume 92 | Number 1 | October 1990 | Pages 134-140
Technical Paper | Development of Nuclear Gas Cleaning and Filtering Techniques / Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A34493
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A physically based theoretical model of gas-liquid and steam-water two-phase flow in a horizontal tee-junction is developed. The model includes five independent equations: the mixture continuity equation, the vapor-phase continuity equation, the x direction momentum equation, the y direction momentum equation, and the energy equation. Any five unknown hydraulic parameters of the tee-junction can be solved in various ways, for virtually any choice of three well-posed boundary conditions. The uncertainty of the interfacial terms and the number of empirical constants that are used in the model are limited. The results of the calculations are compared with experimental data gathered from the literature. The comparison shows that the predictive ability of the model is reasonably good, except that the mass balance equation of the vapor phase is not suitable for some of the steam-water experimental data, and interfacial evaporation and condensation terms should be introduced into the model in the future.