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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.”
Robert P. Wadkins, Richard G. Ambrosek
Nuclear Technology | Volume 97 | Number 3 | March 1992 | Pages 344-351
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34642
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Aluminum-clad fuel plates generally used in nuclear research reactors have unique heat transfer characteristics that require three-dimensional heat conduction modeling without large conservatism. A model, ATR SINDA, was written to interface with the thermal analyzer SINDA, for analysis of the Advanced Test Reactor fuel plates. Comparative analyses with two- and three-dimensional models show significantly higher fuel and coolant temperatures with the two-dimensional model. Comparative analyses also demonstrate that departure from nucleate boiling depends on material.