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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.
Samim Anghaie, Zhongtao Ding
Nuclear Technology | Volume 120 | Number 1 | October 1997 | Pages 57-70
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35431
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A thermal-hydraulic model is developed to simulate and study the dynamic behavior of bulk evaporation and condensation processes in a multiphase nuclear fuel cell. The phase-change process is driven and controlled by internal heat generation and wall heat removal under constant volume condition. The modeling involves variable gravity conditions that allow for performance analysis of the multiphase nuclear fuel for terrestrial and space applications. A complete set of governing equations for both liquid and vapor phases is developed and numerically solved. The model is used to simulate the operation of a multiphase nuclear fuel cell at zero-gravity and microgravity levels. The temperature and phase distribution, the flow field, and the evolution of the liquid-vapor interface are computed and demonstrated.