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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.
Hiroshi Kinuhata, Yoji Shirato, Masahiro Tomiyama, Takashi Kodama, Masanao Nakano, Takeshi Yasuda, Koichi Tsutagi, Yasuyuki Yoshino, Yoshinobu Nakamura, Yoshikazu Tamauchi, Shingo Matsuoka
Nuclear Technology | Volume 189 | Number 2 | February 2015 | Pages 122-132
Technical Paper | Reprocessing | doi.org/10.13182/NT14-11
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The H2 concentration was measured in the ventilated air of actual high-level liquid waste tanks of the Tokai reprocessing plant. It was compared with the value calculated from the parameters that were obtained using the simulated solution. Both values agreed satisfactorily within the limits of uncertainties of the parameters. This agreement showed that the catalytic H2 consumption reaction caused by Pd ions, which was found previously using the simulated solution, proceeds also in the actual solution. The measured “G(H2)” for the actual solution and the derived one using the parameters from the simulated solution were between 7×10−6 and 3×10−5.