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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. P. Toepker, J. N. Anno
Nuclear Technology | Volume 46 | Number 1 | November 1979 | Pages 127-133
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32385
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A Type 304 stainless-steel vacuum system has been designed and constructed to study radiation-induced outgassing when this material is exposed to 60Co gamma radiation. An analytical model has been developed that predicts the outgassing from Type 304 stainless steel to be 5 X 10-10 Paℓ/cm2 . s per Mrad/h. Experiments determined the value for Type 304 stainless steel after bakeout at 300°C to be (1.03 ± 0.58) X 10-9 Pa ℓ/cm2 s per Mrad/h, in fair agreement with the analytical model predictions. Studies on thermally induced outgassing from Type 304 stainless steel showed that after bakeout at temperature T*, thermal outgassing ∆ obeys the relationship ∆ = ∆0 exp(∼Q/RT), where both the constant ∆0 and the average desorption energy Q are functions of T*. Water vapor and hydrogen were the principal residual gases in a Type 304 stainless-steel vacuum system, with hydrogen being dominant at low pressures after bakeout.
