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The two reactors at Dominion Energy’s Surry plant are among the oldest in the U.S. nuclear fleet. Yet when the plant celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2023, staff could raise a toast to the future. Surry was one of the first plants to file a subsequent license renewal (SLR) application, and in May 2021, it became official: the plant was licensed to operate for a full 80 years, extending its reactors’ lifespans into 2052 and 2053.
B. Y. Kim, H. J. Ahn, J. S. Bak, S. K. Kim, D. W. Lee
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 62 | Number 1 | July-August 2012 | Pages 21-28
PFC and FW Materials Issues | Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, Part A: Fusion Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-A14106
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Korea Domestic Agency (KO-DA) was responsible for the procurement of the ITER blanket modules 1, 2, and 6 in the original procurement allocation. According to the procurement reallocation of the blanket system, Korea will procure the blanket shield block in place of the blanket first wall. Nevertheless, several R&D activities in Korea have been performed including optimization of the hot isostatic pressing (HIP) bonding process between Be/CuCrZr and CuCrZr/SS, the nondestructive test method, fabrication feasibility study, high heat flux tests, and design analysis. Especially, KO-DA participated in the qualification program for the mock-up manufacture and high heat flux tests. Several mock-ups were fabricated and tested during the qualification program. The details of the mock-up manufacture and test results are described in this paper. Also, two heat flux facilities were installed based on the graphite heating, and a new electron beam heat flux facility will be built in the near future for the enhanced heat flux mock-up test. As well, some design analysis was performed to investigate the performance of the blanket first wall against thermo-mechanical loading. In this paper, the status of the R&D activities and the results of the qualification tests for KO mock-ups are reviewed.