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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.
Takumi Hayashi, Hirofumi Nakamura, Yoshinori Kawamura, Yasunori Iwai, Kanetsugu Isobe, Masayuki Yamada, Takumi Suzuki, Rie Kurata, Makoto Oyaizu, Yuki Edao, Toshihiko Yamanishib
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 2 | March 2015 | Pages 365-370
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JAEA has two tritium handling laboratories, such as Tritium Processing Laboratory (TPL) in Tokai and DEMO R&D building in Rokkasho. Specially, TPL has been accumulated a gram level tritium safety handling experiences without any accidental tritium release to the environment for more than 25years. At the Grate East Japan Earthquake 2011, TPL received many effects, such as building surface crack etc., however, tritium confinement function was successfully maintained with adequate safety interlock actions and almost all safety related effects will be recovered within March 2014. Recently, our activities have been focused to the 1) ITER Detritiation system R&D task; 2) DEMO R&D tasks in Broader Approach (BA) activities, such as a) tritium accountancy, b) tritium interactions with various materials, and c) tritium durability; and 3) Recovery works from the Grate East Japan Earthquake 2011.