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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.
V. A. Kazakov, A. S. Pokrovsky, A. V. Smirnov
Nuclear Technology | Volume 53 | Number 3 | June 1981 | Pages 392-406
Technical Paper | Nuclear Fuel Cycle Education Module / Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT81-A32648
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The effect of neutron irradiation on the mechanical properties, structure, and peculiarities of void formation in the Mo-Zr-B alloy within the temperature range from 400 to 1080° C and fluences (1.3 to 11.5) · 1025 n/m2 (>0.1 MeV) has been investigated. The results from radiation studies of poly- and monocrystalline molybdenum, Mo—0.12 Zr—0.16 Ti alloy and of the Mo-Zr-B alloys with different initial thermal treatment have been analyzed. At temperatures of 950 and 1080°C, the voids of nonequiaxial shape are formed, and at 1010°C only planar defects, supposedly thin precipitates, are observed. These results show a minimum swelling of the Mo-Zr-B alloy at 1010°C. It is expected that the peculiarities of void evolution in the Mo-Zr-B alloy are due to the impurity precipitation on void faces. A good correlation of the calculated and experimental values for radiation strengthening of the alloy as a result of voids and dislocation loops within a wide range of their sizes and concentrations was observed. A connection was found between the reduction of the uniform elongation within the temperature range from 400 to 900° C and voidage parameters. A maximum strengthening of the alloy takes place after irradiation at 635°C, which results from a high density of both 1.5-nm-diam voids and the dislocation loops.