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APS seeks SLR to keep Palo Verde operational into the 2060s
Arizona Public Service has informed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of its intention to renew the operating licenses of the Palo Verde nuclear power plant’s three reactors for a second 20-year term, which could extend operations at the facility into the 2060s.
According to the announcement, APS won’t submit the subsequent license renewal application to the NRC until late 2027. The renewal would allow Unit 1 to operate through 2065, Unit 2 through 2066, and Unit 3 through 2067.
Gustavo A. Cragnolino, Darrell S. Dunn, C. Sean Brossia, Yi-Ming Pan, Osvaldo Pensado, Lietai Yang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 148 | Number 2 | November 2004 | Pages 166-173
Technical Paper | High-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal | doi.org/10.13182/NT04-A3556
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The susceptibility to various forms of corrosion that could be experienced by the alloys considered by the U.S. Department of Energy for the waste package and drip shield, the principal components of the engineered barrier system for the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain, is evaluated on the basis of experimental studies conducted at the Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses. Environmental, metallurgical, and mechanical conditions for the occurrence of uniform corrosion, localized corrosion, and environmentally assisted cracking of Alloy 22 (58Ni-22Cr-13Mo-3W-4Fe), the preferred material for the outer container, and Titanium-Grade 7 (Ti-0.15 Pd), the alloy proposed for the drip shield, are reported.