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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.
R. C. Block, J. A. Burke, D. P. Barry, M. J. Rapp, S. Singh, Y. Danon
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 195 | Number 7 | July 2021 | Pages 679-693
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2021.1877989
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Neutron capture and transmission measurements were carried out from thermal to 2000 eV on both solid and liquid samples containing elemental cesium (133Cs). This work describes the extension of the R-matrix analysis of these data from 600 to 2000 eV by correcting the capture data for false capture in the NaI detector. These false capture–corrected capture and transmission data were analyzed for resonance parameters utilizing the SAMMY Bayesian analysis code to simultaneously fit both the capture and transmission data. Parameters were obtained for 53 cesium resonances over the 600- to 2000-eV energy range. The s-wave strength function was determined over the energy range from 0 to 1800 eV for both spin J = 3 and J = 4 resonances.
