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U.K. consents to Hinkley Point B decommissioning
The U.K. government’s Office for Nuclear Regulation has granted EDF Energy formal consent to decommission the Hinkley Point B nuclear power plant in Somerset, England. The two-unit advanced gas-cooled reactor was permanently shut down in August 2022, and site owner EDF applied to ONR for decommissioning consent in August 2024.
Allen J. Edwards, M. J. Bird, Michael K. Denham
Nuclear Technology | Volume 98 | Number 1 | April 1992 | Pages 70-78
Technical Paper | Fast Reactor Safety / Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34651
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In the Sodium Entry Series (SES) experiments carried out at the Winfrith Technology Centre’s Molten Fuel Test Facility, thermite-generated, molten uranium dioxide is injected into test sections that represent fullscale typical geometries of a fast reactor subassembly. The test sections are initially full of sodium at 500°C. Comparisons with previous studies without sodium show that the molten material progressed for similar distances before freezing. In addition, there is a complete absence of molten fuel/coolant interactions in all the SES experiments. Consequently, it is concluded that the presence of sodium has little influence on the propagation of molten fuel through initially intact subassembly geometries.