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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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The two-dimensional vortex method is applied to the analysis of coolant temperature fluctuations caused by turbulent mixing to examine its applicability to the analysis of thermal striping in liquid-metal fast breeder reactors (LMFBRs). A coaxial jet flow having different temperatures streaming into a stagnant pool is simulated with the method. The calculated velocities are compared with the measurements of an air jet flow. Large scale eddy structures in the mixing region, which cause dynamic large temperature fluctuations, are observed in the numerical simulations. This vortex method can analyze temperature fluctuations caused by large eddies, and is shown to be a useful method for analyzing thermal striping phenomena in LMFBRs.