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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.
Dariush Azimi-Garakani, John Garnett Williams
Nuclear Technology | Volume 36 | Number 3 | December 1977 | Pages 368-378
Technical Paper | Technique | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31950
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Fission rates have been experimentally determined in the NISUS standard fast assembly, installed on the University of London Reactor CONSORT, with a Makrofol solid-state track recorder (SSTR). The results are compared with fission chamber measurements. The fission tracks were counted by the Quantimet 720. The optical efficiency of the Makrofol SSTR was found to be (94.6 ± 0.7)% for thin deposits. The measurements of 238U/235U fission ratio with SSTR showed a discrepancy of ∼3%o compared with those of the fission chamber.
