LIFE BEYOND 60 YEARS: THE IMPORTANCE OF SUSTAINING THE CURRENT FLEET OF LIGHT WATER REACTORS IN THE U.S. AND THE R&D NEEDS
The current fleet of 104 nuclear power plants in the U.S. began their operation with 40 years operating licenses. About half of these plants have their licenses renewed to 60 years and most of the remaining plants are anticipated to pursue license extension to 60 years. With the superior performance of the current fleet and formidable costs of building new nuclear power plants, there has been significant interest to extend the lifetime of the current fleet even further from 60 years to 80 years. This paper addresses some of the key long term technical challenges and identifies R&D needs related to the long term safe and economic operation of the current fleet.
Ronaldo Szilard Hongbin Zhang
Idaho National Laboratory Idaho Falls, Idaho 83415, U.S.A. Idaho National Laboratory Idaho Falls, Idaho 83415-3870, U.S.A.
国际会议
18th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering(第18届国际核能工程大会 ICONE 18)
西安
英文
1-10
2010-05-17（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）