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Construction begins on Kairos’s fluoride salt–cooled test reactor
Earlier today, on a site in Oak Ridge, Tenn., that was formerly home to the K-33 Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Kairos Power marked the start of construction on its low-power demonstration reactor. Named Hermes, the 35-MWt test reactor claims status as the first Gen IV reactor to be approved for construction by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the first non–light water reactor to be permitted in the United States in more than 50 years.
M. Nakahira, S. Kakudate, K. Oka, N. Takeda, K. Akou, K. Taguchi, Y. Takiguchi, E. Tada, K. Shibanuma, T. Burgess, R. Haange, E. Martin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 1160-1164
Remote Maintenance Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963770
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According to the ITER R&D program, a full-scale vehicle manipulator for handling a 4-ton blanket module was fabricated and tested. The measured manipulator performance satisfy the blanket handling capability. In addition, a full-scale double-seal door was fabricated and assembled to the transfer cask to verify the docking and open/close operations for divertor maintenance. This paper presents design outline and performance test results of these fabricated full-scale remote handling equipment.