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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.
Junhyuk Jang, Minsoo Lee, Gha-Young Kim, Mihye Kong, Jin-Seop Kim
Nuclear Technology | Volume 209 | Number 11 | November 2023 | Pages 1785-1796
Regular Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2023.2213495
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Corrosion modules simulating the engineered barrier system were designed in this study for long-term-corrosion (LTC) testing of canister materials under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. The LTC module for aerobic conditions was designed as a bath-type container with flowing underground water extracted from the Korea Underground Research Tunnel. Five types of metallic disks, that is, rolled Cu, Type 304 stainless steel (SS), Titanium Grade 2 (Ti-G2), cast iron (CI), and Cu coating, were embedded into bentonite and maintained at different temperatures. After 3 years of testing under aerobic conditions, the corrosion rates of CI and Cu were estimated to be 1.9 μm/year and 550 nm/year, respectively. The SS and Ti-G2 exhibited a better corrosion rate of 6 nm/year. The LTC module for anaerobic conditions was developed in a vessel-type cylindrical container to allow it to settle in the boreholes. Four coin-shaped disks of each metal were embedded in bentonite, which was subsequently stacked in the cylindrical vessel. The vessels were placed in boreholes at a depth of 300 m. The Cu corrosion rate after 6 months of LTC testing under anaerobic conditions was 280 nm/year. Longer LTC tests will provide a more exact corrosion rate.