Why SMR Designers Should Consider Bringing Sealing Vendors in At Early Stage

Hi. I'm Chris Cosgrove, a senior business development manager with Technenics. I'm here to speak with you about new nuclear technologies. The largest source of carbon free energy is nuclear, and expanding that technology is a key way to lower carbon emissions worldwide. Small modular reactors, or SMRs, are much smaller in size than existing commercial reactors, and are prefabricated in factories for assembly on-site. Most are designed to be walk away safe. There are many potential applications within an SMR where Technetics can help develop a custom solution to optimize the sealing hardware. Remember, a seal along with the associated hardware comprise a sealing system. If you work with Technatics early in your development cycle, we can help ensure you get the most cost effective leak tight sealing we will consider temperature, pressure, media being sealed, leak rate, and seating load among a myriad of factors to help you design the best sealing system. Sealing for SMRs requires not only a very leak type design but must also perform in high temperature, high pressure, and high radiation environments. These could be light water, molten salt, or even fusion reactors. Technonetics is the world's foremost expert in sealing four nuclear applications, especially reactor vessels. We can help, with your reactor vessel and feed throughs, pressurizers, piping, even spent fuel pools just to name a few applications. We routinely manufacture metal, graphite, and elastomer seals for nuclear applications. But just looking at metal seals for a moment, Our engineers have many configurations to choose from, whether your sealing system includes a standard move, rays face flange, or most other configurations, Technatics can assist in designing a seal assembly that provides high ceiling performance, but is also cost effective. There are many locations where our metal seals might be appropriate in place of polymers. Really any joint where temperature or pressure exceeds the limits of say Viton or where high radiation might degrade elastomers. Our solutions are meant to not only perform without failure under those conditions, but we also understand the importance of lowering radiation dose to nuclear workers during maintenance overages. If you have any questions about sealing for any nuclear rated application, please contact us at technetics dot com. Thank you.