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Modernizing I&C for operations and maintenance, one phase at a time
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.
Daniel López, Javier Sanz, Francisco Ogando
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 62 | Number 1 | July-August 2012 | Pages 252-257
IFMIF | Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, Part A: Fusion Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-A14143
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During the IFMIF/EVEDA phase, a 125 mA and 9 MeV deuteron prototype accelerator will be designed and tested for the final IFMIF project. Deuteron losses will occur during operation of the accelerator at several components as well as at the beam stopping, leading to material activation induced by deuterons and/or by secondary neutrons, depending on the location. This work is focused on the residual dose rate assessment inside the accelerator vault due to the radioactive inventory induced in the main accelerator components, the outside concrete structures of the accelerator vault, and the concrete-made local shielding of the beam dump. The results will be useful for maintenance work planning, identifying hot areas in the accelerator region. The adopted computational procedure uses MCUNED for determination of spatial distribution of deuteron and neutron fluxes, ACAB for activation calculations, and MCNPX for transport of decay gammas. Deuteron transport cross sections are taken from TENDL-2010 and decay and activation cross-section data from EAF-2007.