US regulators look to license renewals to keep fleet active | Reuters Events | Nuclear

US regulators look to license renewals to keep fleet active | Reuters Events | Nuclear: The vast majority of the operators of the U.S.’s 94 nuclear power reactors have made one license renewal since 1998, extending their lives to 60 years from 40 years. However, the aging fleet is shrinking fast – there were over 112 reactors operating at the beginning of the nineties – and there are only two new reactors in construction in Waynesboro, Georgia, Vogtle 3 and 4,