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Oklo completes end-to-end demonstration of advanced fuel recycling
Oklo Inc. has announced that it has completed the first end-to-end demonstration of its advanced fuel recycling process as part of an ongoing $5 million project in collaboration with Argonne and Idaho National Laboratories. Oklo’s goal: scaling up its fuel recycling capabilities to deploy a commercial-scale recycling facility that would increase advanced reactor fuel supplies and enhance fuel cost effectiveness for its planned sodium fast reactors.
T. Mankamo, I. S. Kim, P. K. Samanta
Nuclear Technology | Volume 112 | Number 2 | November 1995 | Pages 250-265
Technical Paper | Reactor Operation | doi.org/10.13182/NT95-A35178
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When the systems needed to shut down a nuclear power plant are inoperable or degraded, the risk of shutting down the plant may be comparable to, or even higher than, that of continuing power operation with the equipment inoperable but giving priority to repairs. This concern arises because the plant may have insufficient capability for removing decay heat during the shutdown. However, in many cases, plant technical specifications require immediate shutdown of the plant. Risk-based analyses for various alternatives of operational policy available in such situations are examined. These analyses can be used to define the risk-effective requirements for those standby safety systems.