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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Passive safety

Passive safety 



Capacity Factor blog - The Australian blog "Capacity Factor" has an excellent summary of the passive cooling features of the proposed design for the NuScale Small Modular Reactor (SMR). It uses passive safety features. The concept is to put SMRs in very large, atmospheric-pressure water pools. Large enough that they can reject decay heat indefinitely by boiling away into the atmosphere

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