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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.
N. A. Hein, H. L. Wilkens, A. Nikroo, H.-C. B. Chen, H. H. Streckert, K. Quan, J. R. Wall, T. A. Fuller, M. R. Jackson, E. M. Giraldez, S. J. Price, R. J. Sohn, M. Stadermann
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 2 | March-April 2013 | Pages 218-225
Technical Paper | Selected papers from 20th Target Fabrication Meeting, May 20-24, 2012, Santa Fe, NM, Guest Editor: Robert C. Cook | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-TFM20-20
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By making the hohlraum wall more opaque to the driver energy, the efficiency of X-ray conversion is improved with the addition of depleted uranium (DU) to a gold-only hohlraum [see T. J. Orzechowski et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 77, p. 3545 (1996)]. The National Ignition Facility (NIF) point design for ignition requires a DU hohlraum, which is manufactured by General Atomics. The process of creating a hohlraum with multiple layers presents manufacturing challenges. To produce these components many steps are required. The processes for manufacturing an Au-lined DU hohlraum requires single-point diamond turning, sputter deposition, electroplating, chemical etch, and cleaning. These steps combined make a process that yields a fully intact Au-DU layered NIF ignition hohlraum.