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NRC accepts Ginna SLR application as Constellation seeks 20-year extension
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted Constellation’s subsequent license renewal application to extend operations at the Ginna nuclear power plant by another 20 years.
If approved, the Ontario, N.Y., facility’s operating license would be extended through September 18, 2049. The plant was first issued a 40-year license in 1969, followed by a 20-year renewal in 2004 that extended the license into 2029.
Akio Ohno, Shojiro Matsuura
Nuclear Technology | Volume 47 | Number 3 | March 1980 | Pages 485-493
Technical Paper | Hot Laboratory | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32403
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Thermoluminescent detectors (TLDs) were applied to measurements of gamma dose rates and their distributions in spent fuel assemblies irradiated in a boiling water reactor, the Japan Power Demonstration Reactor (JPDR). Materials used for the TLD were Mg2SiO4:Tb and LiF. Feasibility of the technique was confirmed by an on-site measurement in a spent fuel pond of the JPDR. The highest gamma dose rate calibrated to a 60Co gamma field was 4 × 103 R/h in the measured positions in a spent fuel assembly, with an average burnup of 5639 MWd/MTM and a cooling time of 8 yr. Reliability of the measurement by means of a TLD was tested via duplicate measurements on a fuel assembly. In the fields of nuclear safeguards and fuel management, application of TLDs will be effective in obtaining inside information of a spent fuel assembly nondestructively.
