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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.
John M. Kallfelz, Lotfi A. Belblidia, Peter Grimm
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 121 | Number 2 | October 1995 | Pages 301-311
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE95-A28566
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For certain reactivity insertion accidents, the fuel-temperature coefficient (FTC) determines the major component of the feedback reactivity, which limits the peak fuel enthalpy during the transient. Some contributions to the FTC from the two energy groups typically used for boiling water reactor transient analysis and the dependence of the contributions on exposure and coolant void content are discussed.