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Virginia utility considers SMRs
Dominion Energy Virginia has issued a request for proposals from leading nuclear companies to study the feasibility of putting a small modular reactor at its North Anna nuclear power plant.
While the utility says it is not a commitment to build an SMR at the site, the RFP is “an important first step in evaluating the technology and the North Anna site to support Dominion Energy customers’ future energy needs consistent with the company’s most recent Integrated Resource Plan.”
Mankit Ray Yeung, Ping Lam Chan
Nuclear Technology | Volume 92 | Number 3 | December 1990 | Pages 309-314
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A16233
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The SSTG steam generator simulation model has been developed by the University of Hong Kong for pressurized water reactor training simulators. Two-phase thermal-hydraulic models have been developed to simulate various physical phenomena such as boiling heat transfer and phase slip in the steam generator. To validate their accuracy, a turbine trip test is simulated. The calculational results are compared with the Electric Power Research Institute’s Arkansas Nuclear One Unit 2 turbine trip test data, and the results are found to be reasonably satisfactory.