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NRC proposes rule changes in response to EO
In April, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14270, “Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting To Unleash American Energy,” which calls for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (along with the Department of Energy, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the Environmental Protection Agency) to issue a “sunset rule” to effectively nullify certain regulations in no more than five years.
Hee-Chul Eun, Jung Hoon Choi, Yung Zun Cho, In Hak Cho, Hwan Seo Park, Geun Il Park
Nuclear Technology | Volume 188 | Number 2 | November 2014 | Pages 185-191
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In closed chamber distillation equipment, the distillation characteristics of LiCl-KCl eutectic salt containing rare earth phosphates were investigated to establish an operating condition to maximize the operating efficiency of the equipment. To understand the behaviors of LiCl-KCl eutectic salt in the distillation chamber, changes in the pressure in the distillation equipment were observed with a change in the temperature gradients between the vaporization chamber and condensation chamber, and the temperature distributions in the chamber were modeled using computational fluid dynamics software (ANSYS CFX). Based on these results, a model of the salt behavior in the chamber was established, and the most effective operating condition for over 99 wt% of salt recovery was determined. Many distillation experiments of LiCl-KCl eutectic salt containing rare earth phosphates were performed at the condition, and it was confirmed that the salt recovery efficiency (>99 wt%) could be consistently achieved at the condition.