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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.
Zvi Shkedi, Robert C. McDonald, John J. Breen, Stephen J. Maguire, Joe Veranth
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 4 | November 1995 | Pages 1720-1731
Technical Paper | Electrolytic Device | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30436
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Apparent excess heat is observed in light water electrolytic cells containing a variety of nickel cathodes, a platinum anode, and an electrolyte of K2CO3 in H2O. High-accuracy calorimetric measurements show apparent excess heat in the range of 15 to 37% of input power if a 100% Faraday efficiency is assumed for H2 and O2 gas release. The H2 and O2 gases released during electrolysis are recombined in a vessel external to the cell, and the quantity of recombined H2O is compared with the quantity of H2O expected from 100% efficient electrolysis. The measured Faraday efficiency is shown to be significantly <100%, and conventional chemistry can account for the entire amount of observed apparent excess heat to within an accuracy of better than 0.5%.
