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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.
C. V. Parks, P. J. Maudlin
Nuclear Technology | Volume 54 | Number 1 | July 1981 | Pages 38-53
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT81-A32752
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A recently proposed sensitivity technique called differential sensitivity theory is applied to the neu-tronic/thermal-hydraulic fast reactor safety code MELT-IIIB. This application centers on the develop ment and solution of the appropriate adjoint and sensitivity equations, resulting in an adjoint version of the MELT code called MELTADJ. Proper inte gration of the forward MELT solution with the corresponding adjoint MELTADJ solution formally yields sensitivity information for all input parameters. Two transients in the Fast Flux Test Facility were investigated by performing input parameter sensi tivity analyses. Sensitivities obtained via MELTADJ are compared with those from MELT recalculations using perturbed input. These investigations indicate sufficiently good agreement between differential sensitivity theory and recalculation to validate the development of MELTADJ.