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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.”
Craig I. Ricketts, Volker Rüdinger, Jürgen G. Wilhelm
Nuclear Technology | Volume 92 | Number 1 | October 1990 | Pages 50-65
Technical Paper | Development of Nuclear Gas Cleaning and Filtering Techniques / Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A34486
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A loss-of-coolant accident or fire suppression with water sprays would release moisture into the air within the containment building of a nuclear reactor. The resulting high air humidity can unfavorably affect the performance of the high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters in the air cleaning systems. One phenomenon that can lead to filter failure or air cleaning system malfunction is the increase in filter pressure drop resulting from supersaturated airflow. To evaluate the performance and reliability of filters exposed to fog, the airstream and filter parameters that influence pressure drop are studied in tests of clean and dust-loaded HEPA filter units. A discontinuous gravimetric method employing full-size sampling filters is used to determine the average liquid water content of the airstream with an uncertainty of ≤10%. The dust loading of filters used in routine service and the liquid moisture content of the air most adversely affect the rate and extent of the pressure drop increase. The susceptibility of clean filters to such increases can be reduced by changes in parameters that enhance the drainage of water from the filter medium. However, the predominance of the adverse influence of dust loading appears to counteract the effectiveness of the improvements studied. It is also shown that relatively simple models can be used to predict the rise in pressure drop of clean filter units with increasing exposure time under fog conditions.