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Investments to Extend Nuclear Plant Life

MCLI Recommendation: “Congress should implement new policies to encourage licensees to make the potentially substantial investments necessary to refurbish or replace equipment in existing nuclear plants.”

LPDD Recommendation: “Congress should continue and increase funding to DOE and NRC to support research and licensing and regulatory process improvements to reduce the technical, economic, and regulatory uncertainty associated with operation beyond 60 years.”

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Example Foreign

Ontario’s Bruce Nuclear Power Station

Ontario uses a contract for differences methodology to support lifetime extensions at the Bruce nuclear station. The price of the electricity output from the fleet of units is adjusted according to th...
Resource Foreign

Report, Nuclear Power Plant Life Management and Longer-term Operation

The OECD’s 2006 report, Nuclear Power Plant Life Management and Longer-term Operation, outlines safety aspects of plant life management, technical limitations, and implications for nuclear capacity te...
Resource Foreign

IEA report, Nuclear Power in a Clean Energy System

Chapter Five of the IEA’s latest nuclear report, Nuclear Power in a Clean Energy System, emphasizes policy mechanisms necessary to keep existing nuclear online and spur investment in new nuclear, incl...
Resource Congress

The Inflation Reduction Act

New: The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund are announcing the launch of an additional resource on the Inflation Reduction Act Tracker website: the IRA litigation case ...
Resource Private Entities

EPRI Nuclear Power Action Plan

EPRI conducts a variety of programs studying technical best practices relating the management of aging nuclear equipment, including boiling water reactor vessels, corrosion, materials reliability, ste...
Resource Private Entities

Delivering the Nuclear Promise Initiative

The Nuclear Energy Institute is engaged in a multiyear strategy to transform the industry, called Delivering the Nuclear Promise, which highlights industry efforts to deliver substantial cost reductio...
Resource Executive Branch

Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications

The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors at DOE has been building and refining a reactor modeling program called VERA (Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications), which offers...