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Here’s an easy way to make aging U.S. power reactors look relatively youthful: Compare them (average age: 43) with the nation’s university research reactors. The 25 operating today have been licensed for an average of about 58 years.
R. E. Moore, C. J. Barton
Nuclear Technology | Volume 24 | Number 2 | November 1974 | Pages 238-245
Technical Paper | Nuclear Explosive | doi.org/10.13182/NT74-A31479
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Whole body annual radiation doses to man due to tritium were estimated for hypothetical exposures to stack gases discharged from the Cherokee Steam Electric Station in the Denver area burning 94 million ft3/day of nuclearly stimu-lated natural gas containing 10 pCi/cm3 of tritium. The highest dose that might be received by any person outside the plant area was estimated to be 0.006 mrem/yr, using annual average weather data. This predicted dose includes 0.005 mrem/yr from the initial exposure to plumes from the stacks, and 0.001 mrem/yr estimated for exposures to residual tritium repeatedly swept over the area by wind reversals which occur almost daily in the Denver area. The total dose to the nearby population of 1.55 million people was estimated to be 3.0 man-rem/yr, of which 1.6 man-rem/yr are attributable to the initial plume exposure, and the balance is from exposures due to wind reversals.