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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.
E. R. Hager, J. R. Lindgren, D. W. Graumann, M. G. Dunlap
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 968-973
Blanket and First-Wall 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-A40159
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A lithium blanket module (LBM), representative of a fusion reactor blanket module has been fabricated by GA Technologies Inc. via sub contract from Princeton Plasma Physics Lab under the sponsorship of the Electric Power Research Institute. The LBM consists of a cubical array of 92 cylindrical breeder rods, 2.54 cm in diameter. Each rod consists of an ∼59 cm long section of lithium oxide pellets clad in 0.03 cm wall Type 316 stainless steel tube followed by a 20 cm long stainless steel reflector rod. Reusable test rods in the 20 cm diameter central region incorporate activation foils for neutron dosimetry and aluminum clad pellets for tritium dosimetry. The breeder rods are contained in an enclosure structure which has provisions for insertion and removal of test rods and dosimeter wires. Procedures developed for fabrication and assembly of the rods and enclosure structure proved to be satisfactory and reliable and the work was done on schedule and within budget.
