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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.
Almir Fernandes, Sudarshan K. Loyalka
Nuclear Technology | Volume 113 | Number 2 | February 1996 | Pages 155-166
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT96-A35185
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The CONTAIN code is an integrated code for predicting the containment behavior (chemical, physical, and radiological) in a severe accident. It models the thermal hydraulics as well as the aerosol and fission products behavior inside the containment. There are four aerosol deposition mechanisms modeled in the code: settling, diffusion to surfaces, thermophoresis, and diffusiophoresis. In general, the settling and diffusion are the most important. A comparison of the CONTAIN deposition rate expression with a general and more accurate rate expression, however, shows that for most geometries, the code expression overestimates the deposition of small particles, mainly because of an inadequate assumption regarding the dependence of the thickness of the boundary layer on particle size. For some specific geometries, the expression can also overestimate deposition of large particles. The general and more accurate expression is implemented in the CONTAIN code for the cubic and spherical geometries for a test problem. The original and the modified versions of the CONTAIN code are found to yield different results for the suspended aerosol mass. The differences depend on other aerosol processes such as coagulation and also on geometry.