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NN Asks: Is the U.S. ready for nuclear construction to accelerate?
Craig Stover
Yes, but . . .
The United States is better positioned today for nuclear construction than it has been in decades. Some of that comes from the experience gained at Vogtle and V.C. Summer. I was part of the team that helped start the V.C. Summer project in 2008, and at that time we were trying to build a nuclear construction workforce from scratch. We learned a lot through that effort, and many of those lessons learned have since been studied, documented, and shared.
The nuclear industry is also benefiting from the wave of investment that started growing around 2020. Over the last five or six years, there has been a serious effort across the country to get ready for new nuclear builds. The U.S. government and the private sector are investing billions of dollars in new nuclear. Much of that work is happening before widespread commercial deployment contracts are signed. This is real, and we need to prepare.
W. H. Olson
Nuclear Technology | Volume 12 | Number 1 | September 1971 | Pages 7-11
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A15891
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A prototype of an in-line vacuum-distillation sodium sampler has been successfully tested in the nonradioactive secondary sodium system at EBR-II. A 125-g sample of sodium is distilled in ∼3 h at an absolute pressure of 5µ and a temperature range of 675 to 700°F. Sample size is reproduced to better than 1%. The sampler is used to determine nonvolatile trace-metal and sodium-compound concentrations in the ppb-ppm range. Results of tests with the prototype are being used to design a model for installation in the radioactive EBR -II primary sodium system.
