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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.
V. V. Kurkuchekov et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 292-294
doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16932
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A novel high-power (10 MW) sub-millisecond electron beam is developed for injection into the open (linear) plasma devices. The beam is produced by extraction of electrons from a plasma of pulsed arc discharge in hydrogen. The beam is extracted and accelerated with multiaperture diode-type electron optical system with 241 small round apertures, which are arranged in a hexagon-al pattern. The injector prototype was installed into the end plasma tank of GOL-3 multiple mirror trap and tested to produce an electron beam with up to 100 keV electron energy, about 100 A total beam current and 0.7 ms or longer pulse duration. In a series of preliminary experiments the electron beam was injected into the GOL-3 plasma chamber filled with deuterium gas with a density of 1014-1015cm-3 and transported in a corrugated magnetic field (〈B〉 up to 1.4 T) along the trap at a distance of 12 m.