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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.
Iréne Lundén, Karin Andersson
Nuclear Technology | Volume 104 | Number 2 | November 1993 | Pages 252-257
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Waste Management / Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT93-A34888
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Many concepts for deep underground storage of high level radioactive waste include the use of bentonite (sodium-montmorillonite) as a backfill material surrounding the waste. It is therefore necessary to model the chemical conditions in the system sodiummontmorillonite-granitic groundwater-granitic rock in order to be able to predict the speciation and solubility of actinides and fission products in this environment. In this study, the chemical interactions and the evolution of the chemical composition of the water in such a system have been modeled using the geochemical computer code PHREEQE. The parameters considered are the pH, Eh, and the chemical composition in aqueous solution. Mineral formation has been taken into account in some cases. The speciation and solubility of uranium in this system have also been calculated.