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Vistra’s Perry nuclear plant approved for license renewal
Texas-based Vistra Corporation has announced that its license renewal application for the Perry nuclear power plant was approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The plant first connected to the grid in 1986 and is still operating under its original 40-year license, which was set to expire next year.
R. Riess
Nuclear Technology | Volume 29 | Number 2 | May 1976 | Pages 153-159
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT76-A31574
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Chosen for this description of the selected Kraftwerk Union (KWU) pressurized water reactor units were Obrigheim [KWO, 345 MW(e)], Stade [KKS, 662 MW(e)], Borselle [KCB, 477 MW(e)], and Biblis [KWB-A, 1204 MW(e)]. The experience at these plants shows that with a special startup procedure and a proper chemical control of the primary heat transport system that influences general corrosion, selective types of corrosion, corrosion product activity transport and resulting contamination, and radiation-induced decomposition, KWU units have no basic problems.