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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.
Sören Johst, Michael Hage, Jörg Peschke
Nuclear Technology | Volume 207 | Number 3 | March 2021 | Pages 352-362
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2020.1766347
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This paper presents the approach of extending a classical generic event tree (ET) of a Level 2 Probabilistic Safety Analysis to the results of a probabilistic dynamic safety analysis. The example of creep-induced steam generator tube rupture has been chosen. The results of an Analysis of Thermal Hydraulics of Leaks and Transients with Core Degradation (ATHLET-CD)/Monte Carlo Dynamic Event Tree (MCDET) simulation analyzing the failure of reactor coolant system components by creeping in a scenario of a high-pressure core melt accident in a generic pressurized water reactor (PWR) have been implemented in the ET. From the results of these simulations, a set of parameters has been extracted and integrated into the ET along with their probability distributions. The effect of these parameters on both the progression of the severe accident sequence under consideration and the release categories of a generic German PWR plant, respectively, is discussed in this paper.