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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.”
Brent J. Lewis, Roderick D. MacDonald, Hugues W. Bonin
Nuclear Technology | Volume 92 | Number 3 | December 1990 | Pages 315-324
Technical Paper | Nuclear Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A16234
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Data from a single defected fuel element operating in-reactor are used to develop a physically based model for describing the increased release of iodine and noble gas fission products to the primary coolant following a reactor shutdown and start-up. Iodines are only released on reactor shutdown, whereas both species are observed on start-up. A dependence on the decay constant of λ-3/2 is typically observed for these transient releases, indicative of a source of release from fuel cracking with little holdup due to transport in the fuel-to-sheath gap.