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Nuclear R&D: Research Efforts Under Way to Support Nuclear Power Plant License Renewal

RCED-91-207 Published: Sep 25, 1991. Publicly Released: Nov 14, 1991.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on research to support the extension of operating licenses for U.S. nuclear power plants, focusing on: (1) the actions the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has taken to implement the National Research Council's recommendations concerning the need for NRC to conduct research on reactor aging to support its licensing renewal efforts; (2) the research on reactor aging that the Department of Energy (DOE) and industry have initiated and completed as a result of Council recommendations that research be performed to prove that NRC license conditions can be met, and whether the results have been provided to NRC, and (3) NRC plans to refine the estimates of risks created by extending the life of the present generation of reactors.

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