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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.
A. De Volpi, R. R. Stewart, J. P. Regis, G. S. Stanford, E. A. Rhodes
Nuclear Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | September 1976 | Pages 398-421
Technical Paper | Uranium Resource / Instrument | doi.org/10.13182/NT76-A31654
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The fast-neutron hodoscope at the Transient Reactor Test Facility is designed for the determination of fuel motion during the course of brief (0.1- to 30-sec) power transients. During the course of a transient test, data must be recorded from each of 334 hodoscope channels at count rates up to 2 million/sec each, down to millisecond time intervals. This is accomplished in a relatively reliable and inexpensive manner by displaying counts from each detector sequentially in binary code on a lamp panel, which is photographed by a high-speed framing camera, producing a film record of the transient test. After chemical development, the film is examined by a computer-controlled flying-spot scanner, and the position and density of candidate lamp images are recorded on magnetic tape. Through further computer processing, these images are sorted and decoded, and the count rate is recovered for each detector at each instant of collection time. A cathode-ray tube and a plotter, both computer controlled, are used to recreate and analyze the fuel motion history of the experiment. Analysis is directed toward fuel distortion or expansion prior to clad failure, slumping, dispersion, amount and rates of movement, post-scram relocation, and ultimate disposition of fuel.