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Elementl plans Ohio nuclear plant; Oklo, Centrus sign Ohio-centered LOI
Nuclear project developer Elementl Power announced June 18 its plans to build a nuclear power plant in southeast Ohio with a planned capacity of up to 1.5 GW.
Elementl already has a reactor design in mind, having reached an early works agreement with GE Vernova Hitachi to deploy the company's BWRX-300 small modular reactors. According to Elementl, construction on the first unit could begin in 2030—subject to a final investment decision and regulatory approvals—with an anticipated completion date of 2034.
Bruce I. Hauss, William E. Kastenberg
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 69 | Number 2 | February 1979 | Pages 326-333
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A20621
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
An improved space-time kinetics method that can be applied to the analysis of either fast or thermal reactor transients is presented. The method blends the concepts of formal reduction (i. e., the quasi-static method) and time synthesis into a single unified approach (called quasi-static synthesis) to handle spacetime equations. Preliminary results obtained with the method indicate reduced computer time, while maintaining computational accuracy, when compared to several other kinetics methods presently in use.