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Westinghouse submits AP1000 design revision to NRC
Yesterday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it has received an application from Westinghouse to renew and update the design certification (DC) for its AP1000 reactor. This application seeks to formally incorporate the lessons learned from the construction of Vogtle-3 and -4 into the design control document (DCD) of the AP1000.
This long-expected submittal builds on previous plans at both the NRC and Westinghouse for the future of gigawatt-scale light water reactor deployments in the United States.
Tsutomu Sato, Makoto Okamoto, Poong Kim, Yasuhiko Fujii, Otohiko Aizawa
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 2 | March 1991 | Pages 357-363
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29368
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Neutron measurements are conducted during heavy water electrolysis in a glass cell equipped with a palladium cathode and a platinum anode set in separate electrode compartments. The electrolysis shows neutron emission peaks at 5 h (runs 1 and 2) and at 20 h (run 3) after start-up. The neutron emission peaks were clearly detected by independent A and B 3He counter channels; the peak values exceed 3σ. The neutron emissions are confirmed to occur in bursts.
