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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.”
Pedro Mata, Pablo García Sedano, Juan Serra
Nuclear Technology | Volume 100 | Number 2 | November 1992 | Pages 203-215
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34743
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The applicability and usefulness of a complete and well-qualified plant transient code and model to support in-depth evaluation of anomalous plant transients are described. The qualified best-estimate RETRAN-02 model for the Cofrentes nuclear power plant (a boiling water reactor with an uprated power of 2952 MW) has been updated for RETRAN-03 using algebraic slip and one-dimensional kinetics. This model has been used in the analysis of recent abnormal plant transients at Cofrentes, including a partial control rod insertion at 92% power, a turbine trip at 67% power with reactor vessel overfill, and reactor instabilities during startup.
