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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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 44 | Number 2 | September 2003 | Pages 460-464
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Fusion Materials | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A378
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In this study, MD simulations of compression process were carried for copper lattices with an interstitial type Frank loops. Slipping of prismatic dislocations was not observed for loops whose size ranges from 0.5nm to 3.6nm. For loops with a size of 0.5nm, atoms in loops were squeezed into the neighboring layer to form crowdion bundles along <110> directions, and then swept away by further deformation. For loops larger than 2nm, the movements of atoms in faulted layer were not homogeneously in one direction during elastic deformation process, its extrinsic stacking was broken into two intrinsic ones exist on two successive planes. After yielding the slipping on these two successive planes accommodated the plastic deformation and broke up the loop. The results in this work proved that, for low stacking fault energy FCC metals such as copper and stainless steel, to describe their deformation mechanism after neutron or heavy ion irradiation, unfaulting and prismatic slipping mechanism cannot apply for interstitial Frank loops, and the behavior of these loops have dependence on their size and Schmid factor.