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NRC grants Clinton and Dresden license renewals
Three commercial power reactors across two Illinois nuclear power plants—Constellation’s Clinton and Dresden—have had their licenses renewed for 20 more years by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
M.C. Perrin, D.E. Ruester, B.A. Cramer
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 592-595
Blanket and First-Wall Engineering | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40103
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A non-linear, inelastic stress analysis code, developed at the McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company (MDAC), was modified to incorporate irradiation effects in the analysis of stress histories within fusion reactor structural components. This code calculates stresses and strains due to temperature gradients, thermal creep, irradiation creep, and differential swelling as a function of neutron wall load and fluence.