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Virginia utility considers SMRs
Dominion Energy Virginia has issued a request for proposals from leading nuclear companies to study the feasibility of putting a small modular reactor at its North Anna nuclear power plant.
While the utility says it is not a commitment to build an SMR at the site, the RFP is “an important first step in evaluating the technology and the North Anna site to support Dominion Energy customers’ future energy needs consistent with the company’s most recent Integrated Resource Plan.”
Masatoshi Nakagawa, Yasusi Tsuboi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 91 | Number 3 | September 1990 | Pages 345-360
Technical Paper | Nuclear Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A34456
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A new analytical method is introduced to determine the distortion and mechanical behavior of fuel-pin bundles in a wire-wrapped fuel subassembly for liquid-metal fast breeder reactor cores. Each fuel pin is considered as an elastic beam using a model that takes wire tension effects into account. To represent the nonlinear stiffness resulting from contact between the pins and the duct, a fictitious element (the joint element) is inserted at the point of contact. This element can also represent friction effects. A substructure method and a block successive overrelaxation method are used to reduce computing time and memory requirements. This analytical method was incorporated into a three-dimensional finite element code called ÉTOILE. Sample calculations are presented that show that this code is capable of a reasonable simulation of the mechanical behavior of a fuel-pin bundle during irradiation. In particular, it has been shown that wire tension has a significant effect on the fuel-pin bundle equilibrium configuration.