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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.
Ping-Hue Huang, Jing-Tong Yang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 107 | Number 2 | August 1994 | Pages 138-154
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT94-A34984
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The Studsvik Core Management System (CASMO-3/SIMULATE-3) has been validated for application to steady-state reactor physics analyses for pressurized water reactors by demonstrating its ability to obtain accurate and reliable results for various conditions and applications. The analyses validated include global reactivity calculations such as boron letdown, low-powerphysics test predictions, detailed pin by pin power distribution, as well as in-core detector reaction rate calculations. The calculated results have been compared to measured data of 13 cycles for Maanshan Units 1 and 2 as well as measured critical experiments, and the accuracies of the method have been quantified. The validation results indicate that the Taiwan Power Company’s steady-state reactor physics methodology performs to a level of accuracy sufficient for the intended applications, and the accuracies in general are slightly better than the worldwide applications.