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It was originally the site of the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project. In February 2022, the site was announced as the first location of a small modular reactor as part of the TVA's New Nuclear Program, which was approved the same year. [1] [2]
Burnup is an important factor in determining the types and abundances of isotopes produced by a fission reactor. Breeder reactors by design have high burnup compared to a conventional reactor, as breeder reactors produce more of their waste in the form of fission products, while most or all of the actinides are meant to be fissioned and destroyed.
The Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project was a nuclear reactor project that aimed to build the USA's first large-scale demonstration breeder reactor plant. [2] It was led by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (and a successor agency, the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA), and subsequently the U.S. Department of Energy).
Unit 1: Liquid Metal FBR Tooltip Fast Breeder Reactor Unit 2: BWR/4 (Mark 1) Units planned: 1 × 1520 MW ESBWR: Units decommissioned: 1 × 61 MW Liquid Metal FBR Tooltip Fast Breeder Reactor: Nameplate capacity: 1150 MW: Capacity factor: 99.01% (2019) 76.3% (lifetime, excluding Unit 1) Annual net output: 9,369 GWh (2021) External links; Website ...
When the plant was up and running, using nine nuclear reactors and five reprocessing plants, it produced about 65% of the plutonium used by the US government. The Hanford Test Reactor, which was ...
TVA's Bob Deacy, left, gives U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, right, a tour of the Clinch River Nuclear Site on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023.
research reactor, in operation since 1958 (demonstrated at the Expo 58 in Brussels), since 1959 at the University of Basel. Decommissioned in 2020. [55] SAPHIR Würenlingen: Pool Decommissioned 10,000 1957-04-30 1993 Paul Scherrer Institut: Lucens: Lucens, Vaud: heavy-water moderated, carbon dioxide gas-cooled. pilot nuclear power plant ...
The Biden administration is working on plans to bring additional decommissioned nuclear power reactors back online to help meet soaring demand for emissions-free electricity, White House climate ...