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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.
L. Väth
Nuclear Technology | Volume 98 | Number 1 | April 1992 | Pages 44-53
Technical Paper | Fast Reactor Safety / Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34649
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The model for transient fission gas behavior in melting and molten fuel contained in the Karlsruhe code LAKU is revised to include the effect of capillary forces, which cause rapid gas bubble coalescence and the formation of big bubbles in the fuel at and beyond the liquidus. Some emphasis is also put on treating the transition from solid to liquid fuel; this is of importance for interpreting the less energetic experiments of the CABRI series and may also have a significant effect for slow transients. The LAKU model is reviewed and recent calculational results are presented.