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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.
B.W. McQuillan, A. Nikroo, D.A. Steinman, F.H. Elsner, D.G. Czechowicz, M.L. Hoppe, M. Sixtus, W.J. Miller
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 31 | Number 4 | July 1997 | Pages 381-384
Technical Paper | Eleventh Target Fabrication Specialists' Meeting | doi.org/10.13182/FST31-381
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An improved process for production of ICF Target Mandrels has been developed. Shells made from PAMS (poly-α-methylstyrene) are coated with GDP (glow discharge polymer). The PAMS is then removed by depolymerization and volatilization at 300°C, leaving a GDP mandrel. Compared to past polymer mandrels, this process yields GDP mandrels with significant improvements in wall thickness control, sphericity and concentricity, and the complete absence of vacuoles. The process is capable of making GDP shells with a wide size range (from 300 < o.d. < 2700 µm), and an independently controlled wall thickness (from 1 to 30 µm). The GDP can be doped with a variety of elements.
