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NRC OKs I&C upgrade for Limerick
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has amended the operating licenses of the two boiling water reactors at Constellation Energy's Limerick nuclear power plant, giving the company the green light to replace the units' analog safety-related instrumentation and controls systems with a state-of-the-art digital system.
Jianqi Xi, Peng Zhang, Chaohui He, Mingjie Zheng, Hang Zang, Daxi Guo, Li Ma
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 66 | Number 1 | July-August 2014 | Pages 235-244
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-740
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A molecular dynamics study has been performed to investigate the generation and evolution of damage states in irradiated β-SiC at high temperature. It is found that most of the C antisites (SiC) are created during the early collisional phase, while the Si antisites (CSi) are significantly produced during the thermal spike phase. A modified near-neighbor point defect density (NPDD) is introduced to study the spatial aggregation of different defects during the displacement cascades, and feature of defect clusters evolution is analyzed in details. The dominated types of vacancy clusters after the displacement cascades are two- and three-size chainlike ones. And the vacancy NPDD (V-NPDD) decreases as the recoil energy increases. Furthermore, after the thermal spike phase, there is an additional annealing process during which the interstitials and antisites turn into defect clusters, respectively.