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Two steps forward for U.K. advanced nuclear
This week, two significant announcements have emerged from the United Kingdom’s advanced reactor sector.
On June 14, Rolls-Royce, the United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory, and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency announced that they had signed two trilateral memorandums of cooperation to collaborate on “advanced modular reactor (AMR) technology, specifically high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGR), and the coated particle fuel these reactors will use.”
Separately, on June 16, Bellevue, Wash.–based TerraPower announced that its Natrium reactor design has been formally submitted for U.K. regulatory review. The company also announced the formation of a new subsidiary, TerraPower UK Ltd.
Genki Tanaka, Naoto Kume, Susumu Naito, Hirotada Hayashi, Ryuji Hirooka, Hideyuki Nisawa (Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corp.)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 1211-1213
The feedback reactivity measurement was conducted in the Monju Core Confirmation Test in 2010. Two reactivity parameters related either to power and to the core inlet coolant temperature were evaluated within 5% accuracy based on the reactivity measured with the inverse kinetics technique. We confirmed that this advanced method is applicable to the fast reactor operation and shorten the duration of the experiment for the feedback coefficients evaluation.