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BWXT will scout potential TRISO fuel production sites in Wyoming
BWX Technologies Inc. announced today that its Advanced Technologies subsidiary has signed a cooperation agreement with the state of Wyoming to evaluate locations and requirements for siting a potential new TRISO nuclear fuel fabrication facility in the state.
I. Savolainen, R. Tarjanne, S. Vuori
Nuclear Technology | Volume 38 | Number 1 | April 1978 | Pages 135-143
Technical Paper | Low-Temperature Nuclear Heat / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT78-A16166
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Small single-purpose heating reactors [100 to 400 MW( thermal)] for district heat production would be economically feasible if they could be sited in the immediate vicinity of heat consumption areas. This close urban siting requires that the reactor plant be designed with an objective to make the most severe accidents extremely improbable. When this aim is assumed to be fulfilled, the probability of acute health effects will be insignificant. The expectation values of the potential delayed health effects caused by the collective doses brought about by accidents or normal operation will be very low as well, and will be clearly smaller than the excess mortality due to the other alternatives for district heat production.