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UIUC submits MMR construction permit application
The University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign, in partnership with Nano Nuclear Energy, has submitted a construction permit application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for construction of a Kronos micro modular reactor (MMR). This is the first major step in the two-part 10 CFR Part 50 licensing process for the research and test reactor and is the culmination of years of technical refinement and regulatory alignment.
The team chose to engage with the NRC in a preapplication readiness assessment, providing the agency with draft versions of the majority of the CPA’s technical content for feedback, which is expected to ensure a high-quality application.
R.R. Peterson, J.F. Santarius
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 1053-1057
Inertial Fusion (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963753
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The X-1 pulsed power facility would drive targets that could release very intense x-rays, debris ions and neutrons. These target emissions must be contained in an experiment chamber that allows access for a variety of high energy density experiments, while confining the radioactive vapors and rubble produced in each experiment. A study is in progress to design and analyze the experiment chamber for X-1. The vaporization of chamber materials by target emissions is considered and the mechanical loading on chamber structures by the rapid vaporization is predicted and discussed.