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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.
Raymond P. Siu
Nuclear Technology | Volume 93 | Number 3 | March 1991 | Pages 350-356
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT91-A34528
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Control room habitability during severe accidents is assessed. The potential levels of radiation hazards to control room personnel are evaluated in terms of magnitude and occurrence probability. The cumulative probability distributions of control room doses, and the expected values for the probabilities of exceeding appropriate dose limits, are determined. The control room types analyzed include designs with filtered local intakes only, filtered recirculation only, filtered local intakes with recirculation, and filtered dual remote intakes with recirculation.