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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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 596-601
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-A40104
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High heat flux components in fusion reactors will experience inelastic strains resulting from swelling, creep, and thermal expansion. Additionally, because of thermal and irradiation creep, the stresses will redistribute during the lifetime of the component. Current proposals for fusion first walls and divertors include structures fabricated by bonding two different metals together. The plasma side material is chosen to minimize sputtering; the coolant side material is chosen to maximize heat transfer. The structural response of such a design is not well known. Accordingly, a one dimensional inelastic stress analysis of a thin walled shell element has been performed. The stress analysis can include temperature dependent material properties, radiation induced swelling, thermal and irradiation creep, and thermal expansion. Furthermore, a simple equation has been derived for the case of a duplex plate constrained from bending. The stress distribution through the plate is followed with time. It is shown that the initial stress distribution evolves with time until some near steady state distribution is approached. The evolution is dependent on swelling and particularly on creep.