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Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
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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.”
Masanori Takahashi, Tatsuo Izumida, Fumio Kawamura, Hideo Yusa
Nuclear Technology | Volume 92 | Number 2 | November 1990 | Pages 238-242
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A34474
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Modeling was carried out on vapor-liquid equilibria of nitric acid containing highly concentrated fission product nitrates to simulate the evaporation characteristics of a reprocessing plant high-level liquid waste (HLLW) concentrator. Results obtained with the model verified its reliability for prediction of vaporliquid equilibria of nitric acid containing highly concentrated nitrates. The results compared well with experimental data obtained with a pilot plant for HLLW concentration (capacity of 40 dm3).
