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We're on it!! TVA has signed a letter of intent to build 6 modular reactors on a sight close to here and has also taken steps to resurrect Bellefonte NP. Watts Bar NP Unit 2 is nearing completion. Here at the lab the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL) has been created to take advantage of the massive computing power we have (and most of the nuclear experts in the country).
Are they looking at Pebble Bed at all? The high temp gas cooled can be so much more efficient, thermally.
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