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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.”
Chien C. Lin
Nuclear Technology | Volume 97 | Number 1 | January 1992 | Pages 71-78
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34627
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The investigation of the chemistry and steam transport behavior of radioiodine in boiling water reactors has been extended to four more reactors during fullscale hydrogen water chemistry (HWC) tests. Under the reducing coolant chemistry environment, most of the radioiodine was found in the iodide (I-) form. The iodine steam carryover was found to increase in varying degree under HWC conditions in two reactors and was practically unchanged in the other two reactors. The variations in radioiodine chemical forms and steam carryover are discussed in terms of radiolytic reactions, and the effect of copper ions in the reactor water is qualitatively evaluated. The effect of HWC on radioiodine transport is not significant.