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Leading the charge: INL’s role in advancing HALEU production
Idaho National Laboratory is playing a key role in helping the U.S. Department of Energy meet near-term needs by recovering HALEU from federal inventories, providing critical support to help lay the foundation for a future commercial HALEU supply chain. INL also supports coordination of broader DOE efforts, from material recovery at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to commercial enrichment initiatives.
Kurt Vinzens, Horst Kappauf
Nuclear Technology | Volume 78 | Number 3 | September 1987 | Pages 255-261
Nuclear Power Plant Kalkar (SNR-300) | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT87-A15991
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A liquid-metal fast breeder reactor (LMFBR) differs from a light water reactor in that it has a much lower internal pressure and a significantly higher operating temperature. These divergent design conditions lead to a special design concept and require specific efforts in fabrication and installation. Important features in design, analyses, fabrication, and installation of LMFBR thin-walled piping systems had to be developed or standards had to be modified. They were accomplished in the KKW Kalkar project. All final checks, including leak tests and pressure tests of the primary and secondary systems, have met the requirements. The installation of the KKW Kalkar pipeworks was finished with the filling of sodium into the last main system in April 1985.
