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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.
Y. Okada, F. Sakai, J. Mitsui
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 932-936
Material; Storage and Processing | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29870
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The thermal diffusion is one of the useful methods for the hydrogen isotope separation. The experiments using ‘Cryogenic—Wall’ thermal diffusion column cooled by liquid nitrogen have been performed in the total reflux and the withdraw modes. As using the same inner diameter column, ‘Cryogenic—Wall’ thermal diffusion column has the higher separation factor, but the lower optimum pressure than ‘Ordinary—Wall’ thermal diffusion column cooled by water. It is obtained that ‘Cryogenic—Wall’ column with a smaller inner diameter has the remarkable high separation factor and the higher optimum pressure. In the withdraw mode, the characteristics of the separation factor as a function of the feed rates is obtained about the several inner diameter columns.