The energy plan of the U.S. Federal Government strives for adequate supplies of energy and for national energy self-sufficiency. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is responsible for implementing the national energy plan. One of the principal objectives of the DOE is to reduce this country's dependence on foreign resources, particularly imported oil. Developing alternative energy sources such as solar power promises to significantly reduce oil imports only in the distant future. To reduce our foreign dependency in the near-term it is necessary to conserve resources and to increase the efficiency for using all energy resources. To displace the use of oil for producing electrical power it is necessary to have highly reliable alternative sources. One of the alternative sources of electricity is light water reactor (LWR)* nuclear power, which currently supplies a significant 10% of this country's electricity. Promoting increased productivity and reliability of LWR plants is the objective of work by the DOE LWR Branch.

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Materials, Objectives, Contamination, Boiling water reactors, Nuclear power, Reactors, Outages, Coolants, Solvents, Contaminants, Personnel, Maintenance, Wastes
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