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NRC HANDS OUT 20 YEAR RELICENSING WITHOUT SAFETY INSPECTIONS
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has yet to reject a single application to extend an original license, the Associated Press found in its recent investigation of aging nukes.
And most of these 20-year extensions have been granted with scant public attention.
“As part of a yearlong investigation of aging issues at the nation’s nuclear power plants, the AP found that the relicensing process often lacks fully independent safety reviews. Records show that paperwork of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission sometimes matches word-for-word the language used in a plant operator’s application,” AP reported. So far, 66 of 104 reactors have been granted license renewals. The process has been so routine that many in the industry are already planning for additional license extensions, which could push the plants to operate for 80 years, and then 100.
Regulators and industry now contend that the 40-year limit was chosen for economic reasons and to satisfy antitrust concerns, not for safety issues. They contend that a nuclear plant has no technical limit on its life.
But an AP review of historical records, along with interviews with engineers who helped develop nuclear power, shows just the opposite: Reactors were made to last only 40 years. Period.
The record also shows that a design limitation on operating life was an accepted truism.
In 1982, D. Clark Gibbs, chairman of the licensing and safety committee of an early industry group, wrote to the NRC that “most nuclear power plants, including those operating, under construction or planned for the future, are designed for a duty cycle which corresponds to a 40-year life.”
And three years later, when Illinois Power Co. sought a license for its Clinton station, utility official D.W. Wilson told the NRC on behalf of his company’s nuclear licensing department that “all safety margins were established with the understanding of the limitations that are imposed by a 40-year design life.”
Some early advocates even believed that technological advances would enable the industry to replace those first models sooner.
When he was a member of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy in the late 1960s, U.S. Rep. Craig Hosmer declared that “power companies expect nuclear generating stations to last 30 years.”
Nuclear physicist Ralph Lapp, an advocate of atomic power, predicted a 25-year life span.
One person who should know the real story is engineering professor Richard T. Lahey Jr., at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. Lahey once served in the nuclear Navy. Later, in the early 1970s, he helped design reactors for General Electric Co.; he oversaw safety research and development.
Lahey dismisses claims that reactors were made with no particular life span. “These reactors were really designed for a certain lifetime,” he said. “What they’re saying is really a fabrication.”
And nuclear engineer Bill Corcoran, who worked for plant designer Combustion Engineering, said certain features were specifically created with 40 years in mind, like the reactor vessel, which holds the radioactive fuel. He said metals were calculated to hold up against fatigue for that long. Concrete containment buildings had to be strong enough to last that long. No one analyzed if they could last much longer.
Tony Pietrangelo, chief nuclear officer at the industry’s Nuclear Energy Institute, says 40 years for the initial license was simply how long it was expected to take to pay off construction loans.
http://taxdollars.ocregister.com/2011/07/31/feds-have-never-said-no-to-nuclear-plant-relicensing/91029/
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