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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.
H. Tsuji, S. Shimamoto, A. Ulbricht, P. Komarek, F. Wüchner
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 823-828
Magnet Engineering | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40135
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The Large Coil Task, an international technology program under the auspices of the IEA, has been conducted to develop large superconducting toroidal coils for tokamaks by the participation of the U.S., Switzerland, Euratom, and Japan. Among the six coils being developed under this program, domestic tests of the pool-cooled Japanese coil in June 1982 and of the forced-cooled Euratom coil in April 1984 were successfully carried out prior to shipment and installation at the LCTF in ORNL. These two LCT coils are the first ones which show experimentally the characteristics of pool-cooled and forced-cooled large coils for TOKAMAK machines. Major results obtained by the two domestic tests are described from the view of comparison of both cooling systems.
