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NRC looks to leverage previous approvals for large LWRs
During this time of resurging interest in nuclear power, many conversations have centered on one fundamental problem: Electricity is needed now, but nuclear projects (in recent decades) have taken many years to get permitted and built.
In the past few years, a bevy of new strategies have been pursued to fix this problem. Workforce programs that seek to laterally transition skilled people from other industries, plans to reuse the transmission infrastructure at shuttered coal sites, efforts to restart plants like Palisades or Duane Arnold, new reactor designs that build on the legacy of research done in the early days of atomic power—all of these plans share a common throughline: leveraging work already done instead of starting over from square one to get new plants designed and built.
Garth E. Cummings
Nuclear Technology | Volume 3 | Number 10 | October 1967 | Pages 641-645
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT67-A27925
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Steady-state and adiabatic calorimeters were used successfully to measure radiation heating rates in lead and polyethylene samples in various facilities at the Livermore Pool-Type Reactor, With the steady-state calorimeter, rates were determined by the temperature difference across a known thermal resistance connecting the samples to a heat sink. The adiabatic calorimeter was used to determine heating rates by the rate of change of temperature in the sample at the time the sample and heat sink temperature were the same. The adiabatic calorimeters were easier to construct, but required more time for measurement.