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NRC adopts ROP updates
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved a significant overhaul of its Reactor Oversight Process (ROP) baseline inspection program that stresses a leaner, more risk-focused inspection process.
This adoption comes just over a month after NRC officials published their findings on the proposed ROP changes. The changes would reduce the number of hours spent annually on direct inspections at U.S. nuclear power plants by 38 percent.
I. Takagi, K. Yamamichi, R. Imade, T. Sasaki, H. Tsuchida, K. Moritani, H. Moriyama
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 4 | November 2011 | Pages 1451-1454
Interaction with Materials | Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12704
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Experimental study on tritium retention in tungsten was conducted, in which samples were irradiated with MeV-energy H or He ions and deuterium concentration profiles were subsequently observed under deuterium-plasma exposure conditions. The results showed that the deuterium concentration was significantly increased by irradiation at 573 K due to production of hydrogen traps while it was not under irradiation below 400 K. In the latter case, however, the concentration was increased when the sample was heated around 550 K. The trap was considered to be a kind of interstitial defects and grown at 550 - 600 K from irradiation defects. Once produced, the trap was stable at least 710 K.