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Ep 370: Chris Keefer - Decouple Podcast

Titans Of Nuclear | Interviewing World Experts on Nuclear Energy

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How Long Will the Life Extension Car Last?

The Pickering reactors have 380 pressure tubes, which carry that pressure is heavy water off to steam generators. And those pressure tubes are what age over time and need to be replaced. Because Pickering is a smaller reactor, and I guess I'm no reactor physicist, but there's less neutron flux I'm told, its pressure tubes are aging the slowest in the entire fleet. Our capacity factors are the best they've been for that site. A site record was set where all six of the reactors powered for a hundred full days through the summer right through our peak demand season.

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