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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.
V. Dykin, I. Pázsit
Nuclear Technology | Volume 193 | Number 3 | March 2016 | Pages 404-415
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NT15-71
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The derivation of the point-kinetic component of the neutron noise in two-group diffusion theory in molten salt reactors (MSRs), based on different techniques, is discussed. First, the point-kinetic component is calculated by projecting the corresponding full space-frequency–dependent solution onto the static adjoint. Then, following the standard procedure in reactor physics, the point-kinetic solution is determined by solving the linearized point-kinetic equations. Both results are thereafter analyzed and compared quantitatively. Such a comparison clearly indicates that the solution obtained by the conventional derivation, i.e., from the point-kinetic equations, significantly differs from the exact one and is not able to reproduce certain features of the latter. Similar discrepancies between the two methods were also pointed out and confirmed earlier in one-group MSR calculations.