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NRC approves V.C. Summer’s second license renewal
Dominion Energy’s V.C. Summer nuclear power plant, in Jenkinsville, S.C., has been authorized to operate for 80 years, until August 2062, following the renewal of its operating license by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a second time.
Eike Hohmann, Marlies Luszik-Bhadra, Helmut Schuhmacher, Burkhard Wiegel, Georg Fehrenbacher
Nuclear Technology | Volume 172 | Number 3 | December 2010 | Pages 273-277
Technical Paper | Radiation Protection | doi.org/10.13182/NT10-A10935
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Recent developments in accelerator physics have led to new challenges for radiation protection dosimetry. As is well known, the ambient dose equivalent indicated by area monitors in high-energy neutron fields behind shielding is often unreliable. Therefore, it is desirable to measure the spectrum and to do "in-field" calibrations using the spectral information as reference. For this purpose, the PTB NEMUS (an extended-range Bonner sphere spectrometer) was modified with a new active thermal neutron detector based on silver activation capable of measuring in intense pulsed fields with high energies and fluence rates.