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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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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.
M. Tobin, V. Karpenko, R. Kauffman, A. Anderson, G. Simonson, H. Kruger, J. Davis, T. Hoover
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 452-456
National Ignition Facility | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11962982
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The NIF is being configured so as to ‘not preclude’ the conduct of radiation sciences experiments that will contribute to evaluating the readiness of military systems and components to withstand radiation environments. The range of possible experimental environments and the flexibility to introduce various types of experimental packages suggests synergism with experiments related to Inertial Fusion Energy development on the NIF. The design status of NIF features to support radiation sciences experiments is described, and a relationship to their applicability to IFE experimentation on NIF is discussed.
