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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.
Chang Joon Jeong, Bo Wook Rhee, Hangbok Choi, Myung Seung Yang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 155 | Number 2 | August 2006 | Pages 176-191
Technical Paper | Fuel Cycle and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT06-A3755
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The compatibility of the direct use of spent pressurized water reactor fuel in Canada deuterium uranium (CANDU) reactor (DUPIC) fuel with the existing 713-MW(electric) CANDU (CANDU-6) reactor has been analyzed for large-break loss-of-coolant-accident (LOCA) scenarios such as a 55% pump suction break, a 35% reactor inlet header break, and a 100% reactor outlet header break. The compatibility was assessed for the fuel integrity against the stored energy and the radiation environmental effect resulting from the large-break LOCA. The analysis showed that the stored energy of the DUPIC fuel was below the fuel breakup energy by 32%. The environmental effect was estimated for the personal and public doses using the radiation source term obtained from one-fourth of the fission product inventory in the fuel gap of the CANDU-6 reactor, being steadily operated at full power. The analyses have shown that both the personal and population doses are below the design limits even for a postulated dual failure such as a complete loss of containment building isolation logic.