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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.”
Dana A. Powers, Ervin R. Copus, David R. Bradley
Nuclear Technology | Volume 101 | Number 3 | March 1993 | Pages 255-261
Technical Paper | Severe Accident Technology / Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT93-A34788
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Studies of core debris interaction with concrete have been extensive over the last decade. These studies have reached a climax in recent tests of the interactions of prototypical melts of UO2, ZrO2, zirconium, and stainless steel with concrete. Zirconium metal has been found to have profound effects on melt interactions with concrete. Zirconium metal reacts with condensed-phase products of concrete decomposition as well as with steam and carbon dioxide evolved from the concrete. Models of core debris interactions with concrete have been modified to include heat produced by the condensed-phase reactions of zirconium. The modified models predict well the high-temperature interactions of prototypical melts with concrete. Discrepancies between predictions and observations are being addressed by improving models of phase relationships in the melt-concrete system.