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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.
M. Peehs, P. Rau
Nuclear Technology | Volume 30 | Number 1 | July 1976 | Pages 33-46
Technical Paper | Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT76-A31621
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The technological development concerning the 12-rod irradiation test element for the gas-cooled fast breeder reactor irradiation at the BR-2 reactor at Mol, Belgium concentrated on the element head, the sealing problems at the venting manifold, the flow guidance tube, the surface roughening technologies for the cladding, and the rod-spacer interaction. Assembly of a dummy element has shown that the fuel element technology developed can be handled with adequate reliability. For the electrically heated calibration element, a spacer with insulated pads was developed and manufactured full scale. Calibration of the element manufactured is completed.
