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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.
S. N. Vaidya
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 29 | Number 3 | May 1996 | Pages 405-408
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reactions in Solid | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A30728
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Screening of Coulomb interactions by itinerant deuterons contributes to the enhancement of the deuteron-deuteron reaction rate in some metal deutendes and fast deuteron conductors such as PdDx, DyNax WO3, SrCeO3: Y, Nb, and so forth. We propose that the deuteron screening mechanism also gives rise to the anomalous isotope effect in the PdD(H) system and to the increase in the superconducting transition temperature Tc of DxYBa2Cu3O7−δ. In conjunction with the currently known factors that govern superconductivity, the deuteron screening might lead to a new class of superconductors.
