Oak Ridge National Lab Archives

Research Evaluates Transitioning from Coal to Nuclear Energy

October 2024 – Researchers are engaging directly with communities to learn more about local opinions and how to build social and cultural metrics into their energy-planning analysis. That’s work that’s also being done at ORNL, where the Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) works with individual sites and utilities to run economic analyses and provide decision-making resources.

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Metatomic Molten Salt Immersed Hydrochlorination Subsystem Characterization, Metomic

Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) will provide the requisite expertise and spent fuel handling capability to enable the laboratory scale assessment and demonstration. The data generated at laboratory scale would provide confirmation of feasibility and basis for scaling to an industrial scale capability.

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Assessment of NuScale SMR Steam Heat Augmentation for Chemical Plant Decarbonization, NuScale Power

NuScale will partner with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to perform a techno-economic analysis of a NuScale plant with a novel heat augmentation system for application to a commercial scale chemical production facility to help understand the functional requirements for the system and determine best ways to integrate with the facility.

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Post-Irradiation Examination to Quantify Irradiation-Induced Bowing of SiGA® Silicon Carbide Composite Structures, General Atomics

This project will address first-of-a-kind (FOAK) experimental post-irradiation examination (PIE) of irradiation-induced bowing response in SiC-SiC structures.

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High Temperature Neutron Flux Detector – Reactor Testing, Ultra Energy

Ultra has developed a prototype detector but to complete the anticipated testing program for the prototype detector and demonstrate suitable operation at reactor flux levels, the detector requires testing at fluxes equivalent to those typically seen in power reactor operation (1E10 – 1E11nv).

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2022 Molten Salt Reactor Workshop

This workshop will focus on multiple topics, including overviews of US Department of Energy (DOE) and US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) MSR released activities and overviews of the US DOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) MSR technology development and advanced modeling and simulation activities.

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Criticality Safety Evaluation of NuCycle™, Curio Solutions

The project will evaluate the criticality safety limits of the conceptual equipment designs for NuCycle™.

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Elementl Power Siting Evaluation, Elementl Power LLC

Elementl is evaluating dozens of locations in the U.S. for siting suitability of advanced reactor technologies.

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TVA Siting Study, Tennessee Valley Authority

TVA has begun planning an Advanced Nuclear Program and is beginning to study future deployment of advanced nuclear reactors (ANRs). This project will screen the TVA service area to help determine suitable sites for future ANR deployment.

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LEU+ UF6 Physical Chemistry Study, Orano Federal Services

Previous studies for UF6 limits in shipping containers were limited to enrichment up to 5%. The objectives of this new study will take that enrichment to 10%. The project will review the available literature and update these studies with current techniques, evaluate the impact of higher enrichments in safety criticality cases in transport conditions, and publish a report that will serve as the basis to the safety criticality analysis that will be provided for review and approval to the radioactive material transport regulators, for the DN-30 package with 30B cylinders containing enrichment higher than 5%.

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