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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.
P.A. Finn, R.G. Clemmer, L. Greenwood, A. Lide, D.K. Sze, J.L. Anderson, R. Sherman, J.R. Bartlit, Y. Naruse, H. Yoshida
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 2 | March 1989 | Pages 680-686
Blanket and Shield Design | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A39776
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A breeder blanket interface for an aqueous lithium salt blanket is defined for TSTA. High calculated radiolysis rates result in a high overpressure in the blanket and the need for a depressurizer and a recombiner system. High projected corrosion rates for stainless steel and for beryllium result in high activity levels in the blanket and the possible dissolution of the beryllium balls. The required tritium processing systems are complex, involving seven separation steps. A flow sheet is presented of the needed tritium systems. The main processing units to recover tritium from the salt solution are a flash evaporator with condenser, a water distillation unit, and a vapor phase chemical exchange (VPCE) unit. The gas product stream from the blanket has an H/T ratio of 105 which requires a dedicated cryodistillation unit of very high capacity. This unit has a first column with a diameter of almost one meter to decrease the H/T ratio to 10.
