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TerraPower begins U.K. regulatory approval process
Seattle-based TerraPower signaled its interest this week in building its Natrium small modular reactor in the United Kingdom, the company announced.
TerraPower sent a letter to the U.K.’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, formally establishing its intention to enter the U.K. generic design assessment (GDA) process. This is TerraPower’s first step in deployment of its Natrium technology—a 345-MW sodium fast reactor coupled with a molten salt energy storage unit—on the international stage.
F. Carre, Z. Tilliette, J. Remoleur, E. Proust
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 1101-1106
Blanket and First Wall Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A23005
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In the frame of the recent CEA studies aiming at the evaluation and the comparison of various candidate blanket concepts in view of their possible extrapolation to the commercial power reactor, the present work examines the potential interest of a 15 MPa pressurized water cooled Li17Pb83 blanket. After a brief presentation of the main reactor parameters, the body of the paper is devoted to the engineering optimization of the blanket arrangement, in terms of tritium breeding (minimization of the water content), coolant manifolding (minimum coolant cross section, minimum number of connections and easy access for maintenance) and adaptation to the steep power and irradiation gradients, typical of Li17Pb83 and crucial for a power reactor. Poloidal cooling direction, long heated length and segmentation into the radial direction (breeder rows) provide some answers to these preoccupations and could be recommended for the next step liquid blanket studies, in order to anticipate the requirements of the commercial reactor.
