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Who’s in the running for DOE Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses?
Today is the Department of Energy’s deadline for states to respond to a request for information on proposed Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses. Issued on January 28, the RFI marks the first step toward potentially establishing voluntary federal-state partnerships designed to build a coherent, end-to-end nuclear fuel cycle strategy for the country, including waste management, according to the DOE.
D. Wootan, R. Omberg, A. Casella, N. Lahaye, B. Mcdowell (PNNL), W. Stokes (Columbia Basin Consulting Group)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 36-44
The accident scenarios that need to be analyzed within Chapter 15 of a safety analysis report may vary significantly between advanced reactors and the light water reactors that compose the current commercial fleet. In anticipation of identifying scenarios of concern and developing methods for their analysis, correlations may be made to calculations and tests performed in support of the liquid metal and molten salt reactors that have been operated previously within the US. In this paper, we discuss efforts made to compare Chapter 15 considerations for a proposed lead-bismuth cooled reactor to those developed previously for the Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF) and the GE-Hitachi PRISM reactor. Comparisons were also made with Beyond Design Basis Accidents for FFTF.