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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.
Bo Wook Rhee, Hangbok Choi, Joo Hwan Park, Kyung Myung Chae, Hye Jeong Yun
Nuclear Technology | Volume 159 | Number 2 | August 2007 | Pages 158-166
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT07-A3862
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A three-dimensional (3-D) computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model has been developed to analyze the liquid poison injection phenomenon of shutdown system 2 (SDS-2) of a Canada deuterium uranium (CANDU) reactor. Because the SDS-2 injects highly pressurized liquid poison into the moderator in a very short time, it is a major safety priority to confirm the effectiveness of the SDS-2 as one of the shutdown systems. In general, it is difficult to directly measure the velocity and concentration of the poison jet during an injection because of the complex nature of the injection system and the process. Therefore, a series of investigations has been performed to develop a CFD model for liquid poison injection phenomenon with limited validations. In this study, the validation of the existing CFD model for the poison injection phenomenon of the CANDU SDS-2 is extended to be applicable to a CANDU-6 reactor as well as a larger CANDU reactor. The analyses showed that the poison jet growth for those experiments simulated by the 3-D CFD model agrees reasonably with the experimental results. Therefore, it is concluded that the proposed 3-D CFD model can be used to assess the effectiveness of a liquid poison injection in compliance with the intended functional design requirements of the CANDU SDS-2.