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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.
Jun Woo Bae, Hee Reyoung Kim
Nuclear Technology | Volume 192 | Number 3 | December 2015 | Pages 215-221
Technical Paper | Radiation Measurements and General Instrumentation | doi.org/10.13182/NT14-131
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A design and performance test of an antiscattering X-ray grid that is based on photosensitive glass was conducted using MCNP simulation. The simulation was designed in three parts: source, scatterer, and grid. The source was a cone type with a single energy of 50 keV, and the scatterer was designed as a box with elemental composition and density the same as those of a human body. Three types of grid were tested: ideal, injection, and electroplating. The ideal-type grid was generally known and contained only a shielding wall, the injection-type grid had the shielding material injected into the glass, and the electroplating-type grid had the shielding material electroplated on the glass lattice skeleton. The ideal-type grid showed a scattered and primary photon ratio (SPR) of 0.106, and the nongrid type showed an SPR of 0.159. The injection-type grid had an SPR of 0.126, which corresponded to 119.3% of that of the ideal type. The electroplating-type grid had an SPR of 0.0964, which corresponded to 93.7% of that of the ideal type. It was understood that the electroplating-type grid showed the most effective reduction of the scattered photons in terms of SPR.