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NRC approves V.C. Summer’s second license renewal
Dominion Energy’s V.C. Summer nuclear power plant, in Jenkinsville, S.C., has been authorized to operate for 80 years, until August 2062, following the renewal of its operating license by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a second time.
Weston M. Stacey
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 76 | Number 2 | February 2020 | Pages 153-156
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2019.1704595
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The relationships among the radial distributions of neutral beam momentum and particle sources, the radial distribution of ion orbit losses, and the resulting radial distributions of toroidal and poloidal rotation velocities and radial pressure gradients and the radial distribution of the ion and electron temperatures are derived from the requirements of particle, momentum, and energy conservation.