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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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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.
Atsushi Kimura, Kaoru Fujita, Masaharu Nakazawa, Shinya Fujita, Eiji Seki, Yutaka Tanaka, Shigehiro Kono
Nuclear Technology | Volume 136 | Number 2 | November 2001 | Pages 197-203
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT01-A3238
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A new method to determine neutron sensitivity of uranium-type local power range monitors (LPRMs) has been developed. In this method, neutron sensitivity of LPRMs is obtained from alpha-ray current of 234U. The uncertainty of the calibration for neutron sensitivity using alpha-ray current was 2.1%, and the correlation coefficient of these neutron sensitivities was 0.868 (sample: 50 cases). Using this method, the neutron sensitivity can be obtained without irradiation tests of LPRMs in reactors.
