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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
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Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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TerraPower begins U.K. regulatory approval process
Seattle-based TerraPower signaled its interest this week in building its Natrium small modular reactor in the United Kingdom, the company announced.
TerraPower sent a letter to the U.K.’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, formally establishing its intention to enter the U.K. generic design assessment (GDA) process. This is TerraPower’s first step in deployment of its Natrium technology—a 345-MW sodium fast reactor coupled with a molten salt energy storage unit—on the international stage.
T. T. Claudson, R. W. Barker, R. L. Fish
Nuclear Technology | Volume 9 | Number 1 | July 1970 | Pages 10-23
Fuel Cladding Model | Symposium on Theoretical Models for Predicting In-Reactor Performance of Fuel and Cladding Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT70-A28723
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Fast-neutran irradiations in the EBR-II have been completed an biaxial stress rupture, creep, and tensile specimens of AISI 304 and 316 stainless steel. Postirradiation test results show that irradiations in the 480 to 650°C range to fluences of 1 × 1022 n/cm2 (E > 0.1 MeV) substantially reduce the time-dependent rupture life and ductility of these materials. Tensile ductility is also severely reduced. Bulk-density measurements and electron-microscopy examinations on specimens of annealed 304 from EBR-II core components and mechanical property specimens have been made for fluence levels to 7 × 1022 n/cm2 and at temperatures in the 360 to 470°C range. Both the bulk-density measurements and microscopy examinations correlate well and indicate that volume changes of 4% can be expected under these conditions. The temperature and fluence dependency for annealed 304 stainless steel has been determined and can be expressed as: The mechanisms responsible for the observed degradation of mechanical properties and metal swelling are being studied. Some observatians are presented. However, as yet, no adequate nucleatian and growth model has been determined to enable an acceptable extrapolatian of these data-to-goal fluence levels to be achieved in Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor core companents or fuel-pin cladding.