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TVA nominees promise to support advanced reactor development
Four nominees to serve on the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee that they support the build-out of new advanced nuclear reactors to meet the increased energy demand being shouldered by the country’s largest public utility.
J. M. Barnes, R. T. Santoro, T. A. Gabriel
Nuclear Technology | Volume 40 | Number 3 | October 1978 | Pages 348-451
Technical Note | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT78-A26733
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The atomic displacement and hydrogen and helium gas production rates in a 0.01-m-thick Type 316 stainless-steel first wall have been calculated as a function of the composition of a 0.5-m-thick fusion reactor blanket. The atomic displacement rates range from a low value of 8.4 dpa/yr for an empty blanket to a high value of 22.6 dpa/yr for a lead-filled blanket. Hydrogen gas production rates vary from 423 to 536 appm/yr, and the helium gas production rates vary from 134 to 159 appm/yr for the empty and carbon-filled blankets, respectively.
