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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, Hiroo Kanamaru, Mitsuo Tanaka
Nuclear Technology | Volume 95 | Number 3 | September 1991 | Pages 349-365
Technical Paper | Reactor Operation | doi.org/10.13182/NT91-A34583
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A parallelism analysis integrated system (PARIS) with a multiple instruction stream-multiple data stream (MIMD) scheme has been developed to analyze simulation programs and generate a parallel execution program for parallel processing. This simulation program can predict effects of anomalies in nuclear plants. The PARIS system first analyzes task parallelism and the processing time of each task after a user divides a program developed for a single processor into many elementary assignment units. The system then assigns tasks to processors using the critical path/most immediate successor first scheduling algorithm to minimize the overall processing time, and it generates the parallel execution program, which can be executed with a tightly coupled multiprocessor. The PARIS system has two scheduling methods so it can assign tasks to the multiprocessor both before and during execution of the program. Thus, optimum task scheduling is accomplished even when the processing time of each task changes according to accident analyses. The PARIS system is assessed using a nuclear power plant analyzer code (NUPAC-1) that includes reactor coolant system and steam generator models. The results show that the NUPAC-1 processing time with 7 processors is 3.5 times as fast as with a single processor. The fast-running capability is 5.4 times as fast as real time in steady-state and transient analyses and 4.0 times as fast in accident analyses. Furthermore, the results show that the PARIS system can be adapted to realize a predictive simulator using the NUPAC-1 code with few nodes.