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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.
Takahiro Arai, Masahiro Furuya, Kenetsu Shirakawa
Nuclear Technology | Volume 208 | Number 2 | February 2022 | Pages 203-221
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2021.1897733
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A subchannel void sensor (SCVS) acquires the two-phase flow in a rod bundle as the time-series data of cross-sectional distributions. Herein, the temperature and pressure ranges of an SCVS were extended to include the rated conditions of boiling water reactors. The improved SCVSs were installed in a 5 × 5 heated rod bundle at eight height levels. In a boiling experiment using the rod bundle, the three-dimensional distributions of the boiling two-phase flow were measured over a wide pressure range (up to 7.2 MPa). The new experimental data were compared with existing experimental data and the results of a subchannel analysis. Experimental results were consistent with those of a high-energy X-ray computed tomography study of a heated rod bundle with the same geometry and under the same heat and flow conditions as those used in our study. The subchannel analysis code reproduced the experimental results fairly well, and the obtained database is applicable for validating and improving thermal-hydraulic analysis codes.