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NRC looks to leverage previous approvals for large LWRs
During this time of resurging interest in nuclear power, many conversations have centered on one fundamental problem: Electricity is needed now, but nuclear projects (in recent decades) have taken many years to get permitted and built.
In the past few years, a bevy of new strategies have been pursued to fix this problem. Workforce programs that seek to laterally transition skilled people from other industries, plans to reuse the transmission infrastructure at shuttered coal sites, efforts to restart plants like Palisades or Duane Arnold, new reactor designs that build on the legacy of research done in the early days of atomic power—all of these plans share a common throughline: leveraging work already done instead of starting over from square one to get new plants designed and built.
O. P. Joneja, M. Rosselet, A. Luethi, J. Ligou, R. P. Anand, T. Buchillier
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 4 | November 1995 | Pages 1663-1673
Technical Paper | Blanket Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30433
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Heat deposition rate measurements are made by an extremely sensitive quasi-adiabatic graphite calorimeter and thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLDs) in the fusion environment of the LOTUS facility. The response of a bare calorimeter and the response inside a large graphite cylindrical block are measured by irradiating with a mixed neutron and gamma field of the Haefely neutron generator. The reproducibility of these measurements is found to be better than 1% for a dose rate more than 60 cGy/min and better than 3.8% for dose rates in the range of 6 to 60 cGy/min. The heating rates are found to vary linearly with neutron source strength. The calculation to experiment (C/E) for the bare calorimeter is found to be 1.05, whereas inside the graphite block, C/E varies from 1.11 to 1.32. These measurements are analyzed by the MCNP Monte Carlo neutron and photon transport code using the BMCCS2, PHOTXS2, and EL2 cross-section libraries. The influence of wall-returned neutrons and gammas is found to be negligible. The origin of the discrepancies is found by measuring the gamma component of the heating at identical locations by conducting special geometry irradiation using several TLDs-700. The conditions that are employed considerably simplify the transformation of the TLD results to that of the graphite medium. A detailed data treatment is done with the TLD outputs to arrive at the gamma heating component at different locations in the graphite by employing the Burlin theory. The gamma production is found to be well represented in the calculations. On the other hand, measured and calculated net nuclear heating in the graphite differ considerably. A downward revision of the neutron kerma factor would be desirable.
