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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.
Rouyentan Farhadieh
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 78 | Number 3 | July 1981 | Pages 294-296
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A20306
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Experimental study of the downward melting of a gas-releasing substrate solid surface by a hot liquid pool of different densities was performed. The molten phases of the solid and the liquid pool were mutually miscible. Heating of the liquid pool was obtained by a flat heater grid, suspended in the liquid above the solid surface. The liquid layer beneath the heater grid was thermally stable. After the onset of melting and gas release, the different flow regimes, identified in the case of nongas-releasing solid, were not encountered. The melting rate continuously increased with an increase in the ratio of the liquid density to the melted-solid density, ρ*, attaining a maximum at about ρ* ≈ 1.19, beyond which this rate decreased to even a lower value than that of nongas-releasing solid.