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Diablo Canyon gets key state approval
Pacific Gas & Electric has announced that the California Coastal Commission, the state agency in charge of protecting California’s roughly 840 miles of coastline, unanimously voted to approve the Act Consistency Certification and Coastal Development Permit for Diablo Canyon, a critical step in the utility’s work to extend the life of the nuclear power plant.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 129 | Number 2 | June 1998 | Pages 195-198
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE98-A1974
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Ways to evaluate the amount of depleted boron in the reactor coolant system of pressurized water reactors and in the total nuclear power plant boron inventory are presented. Also shown are the identified amounts of the depleted boron in the D. C. Cook nuclear plant units 1 and 2 and respective values calculated using presented equations. Operational and safety aspects of the phenomena are discussed.