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Restart progress and a new task force in Iowa
This week, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed an executive order to form the Iowa Nuclear Energy Task Force, the purpose of which will be to “advise her, the General Assembly, and relevant state agencies on the development and advancement of nuclear energy technologies and infrastructure in the state.”
Thierry Cadiou, Jacky Louvet
Nuclear Technology | Volume 153 | Number 3 | March 2006 | Pages 256-263
Technical Paper | Sodium Technology - Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT06-A3705
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Upon request of the French Safety Authorities, the transient phase, initiated by a total instantaneous blockage (TIB) in a Phénix reactor fuel assembly, has been investigated. Based on an experimental program performed with the SCARABEE reactor, the phenomenology of the accident is first presented. The SIMMER code, which models fast reactor core disruptive accidents, is then used to analyze the transient phase in order to establish the chronology of the events occurring in the faulty assembly after its blockage. This study concludes that the time between the TIB and the onset of structure melting in the neighboring assemblies is sufficient to scram the reactor by control rod insertion before propagation of the accident to the rest of the core.
