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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.
Yassin A. Hassan, James G. Rice, Jong H. Kim
Nuclear Technology | Volume 65 | Number 3 | June 1984 | Pages 454-461
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT84-A33402
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Numerical predictions of the three-dimensional temperature and velocity profiles of an experimental stratified horizontal pipe flow are performed. The experiment is one of a series of flow tests conducted at Argonne National Laboratory. A new accurate and stable skew-upwind differencing scheme is employed in the finite difference solution of the energy equation. The skew-upwind predictions are in excellent agreement with the experimental data as steady-state conditions are approached at the upstream test subsection. Comparisons between the conventional upwind and the skew-upwind schemes showed that the skew-upwind formulation provided a significant increase in the accuracy of temperature predictions.
