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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.
Yigal Ronen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 46 | Number 1 | November 1979 | Pages 53-60
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32379
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Light water reactors can be refueled with natural uranium and plutonium. When the plutonium provides less than one-half of the fissions, the plutonium fissile inventory ratio will be greater than unity. Therefore, a self-sustained system is obtained. The burnup that can be obtained by this refueling method is ∼4000 MWd/ton. A doubling of the fuel lifetime is obtained (∼8000 MWd/ton) when the spectral shift control method is adopted.
