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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.
Werner Fiala, Carlos V. Wheeler
Nuclear Technology | Volume 10 | Number 2 | February 1971 | Pages 215-220
Technical Paper and Note | Instrument | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A30929
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An instrument proposed as a total-reflecting low-energy neutron spectrometer was designed, constructed, and tested at the Puerto Rico Nuclear Center. The tests consisted of measurements of the spectra of three slightly different core conditions at a radial beam hole of the swimming pool reactor of the PRNC. The data obtained indicate that the instrument is very sensitive and surprisingly able to detect changes in the neutron spectra due to small changes in the reactor core configuration.