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The two reactors at Dominion Energy’s Surry plant are among the oldest in the U.S. nuclear fleet. Yet when the plant celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2023, staff could raise a toast to the future. Surry was one of the first plants to file a subsequent license renewal (SLR) application, and in May 2021, it became official: the plant was licensed to operate for a full 80 years, extending its reactors’ lifespans into 2052 and 2053.
Nirmal Kumar Ray, Tushar Roy, Shefali Bajpai, Tarun Patel, Yogesh Kashyap, Mayank Shukla, Amar Sinha
Nuclear Technology | Volume 197 | Number 1 | January 2017 | Pages 110-115
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT16-71
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The online reactivity monitoring of accelerator-driven systems is a crucial issue in reactor control and monitoring. The area-ratio method is one of the techniques for measuring the reactivity of subcritical systems using a pulsed neutron source. This technique has been used to measure reactivity at different locations in the subcritical assembly BRAHMMA developed at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India. Since the reactivity measured by the area-ratio method is spatially dependent on the detector location, the Bell-Glasstone correction factor was used to correct the measured reactivity.