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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.
X. Z. Li, C. Ren, P. Jiang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1313-1316
Result of Large Experiment and Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29523
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In a recent effort to produce fissile material in the blanket of a fusion-fission hybrid reactor.1,2 it is expected that the wave heating might enhance the fusion reaction rate by a factor of 5 in the experimental reactor and by a factor of 2 in the demonstration reactor. Therefore, Fokker Planck equation with ICRH has been solved to obtain the non-maxwellian distribution function for deuterons. It is pointed that Krapchev's paper3might lead to an overoptimistic result due to the improper reaction cross-section formula which is supposed to be applied only for low energy cases. Using the correct cross-section formula4, the calculations show that it is necessary to invoke other kind of non-maxwellian distribution function. Nonequipotential magnetic surfaces5in H-mode may cause such non-maxwellian distribution function.
