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NRC proposed rule for licensing reactors authorized by DOE, DOD
Nuclear reactor designs approved by the Department of Energy or Department of Defense could get streamlined pathways through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s commercial licensing process should applicants wish to push the technology into the civilian sector.
A proposed rule introduced April 2 by the NRC would “improve NRC licensing review efficiency, where applicable, by explicitly establishing by regulation an additional means for reactor applicants to demonstrate the safety functions of their reactor designs, and thus, would contribute to the safe and secure use and deployment of civilian nuclear energy technologies.”
G. A. Pertmer, S. K. Loyalka
Nuclear Technology | Volume 47 | Number 1 | January 1980 | Pages 70-90
Technical Paper | Reactor Siting | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32413
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Sensitivity analyses have shown that the gravitational collision efficiency influences post hypothetical core disruptive accident aerosol behavior in liquid-metal fast breeder reactor (LMFBR) containment in important ways. Our research was directed toward improving expressions for this quantity. Following the work of atmospheric sciences, dynamical equations for two particle motions were developed. A computer program GCEFF was constructed, options for using a variety of drag forces were provided, and the dynamical equations were solved by using Gear’s method. Results were compared with the previous work of atmospheric sciences, and explicit results for several cases of interest in the LMFBR studies were provided. It was concluded that the particle density plays an important role in determining the collisional efficiency, and the present results were substantially different from the results provided by the model currently being used in the aerosol behavior codes. Finally, for the collisional efficiency, a computer program that can be conveniently used in the CRAB computer program (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Battelle-Columbus, under development) or some other similar program was described.