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Developing a new regulatory framework for advanced reactors: Update on Part 53
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The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) on March 29 held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series. The presenter, Patrick White with the Nuclear Innovation Alliance (NIA), talked about the current status of efforts to develop a new regulatory framework for advanced reactors—known as 10 CFR Part 53 or simply Part 53. White serves as the research director of the NIA, where he leads their research as well as analysis-based stakeholder and policymaker engagement and education. White’s March 29 presentation is publicly available on YouTube and at ANS’s publication platform Nuclear Science and Technology Open Research (NSTOR).
RP3C chair N. Prasad Kadambi opened the CoP with brief introductory remarks about the RP3C before he welcomed White as the session’s presenter.
White covered three main topics: the history of the existing regulatory frameworks for new reactors, progress to date on the development of the Part 53 rule for advanced reactors, and the current status and next steps for the Part 53 rulemaking process.
Hiroo Numata, Izumi Ohno
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 38 | Number 2 | September 2000 | Pages 206-223
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST00-A143
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The physicochemical properties of the Pd-H system were studied by in situ potentiometric, resistance, and dilatometric measurements in each of three applied pulse modes, A, B, and C, and repeated H absorption and desorption. Potential, resistance ratio, and an increase in dilation (l/l0) were measured simultaneously after H equilibrium was attained with the Pd electrode. During continuous absorption, structural phase transition ( [right arrow] ) and void formation occurred, and the values of the H/Pd ratio in the limiting phase, in the + phase coexistence, and in the transition and the +voids coexistence regions are consistent with those obtained from the Pd-H isotherm at 40°C. Hydrogen absorption caused the dilation, from whose slope the molar volume was obtained as 0.64 ( phase) and 0.40 ( + phase) cm3/mol. The resistance increased in proportion to the H/Pd ratio and was kept constant at 1.7 to 1.8 over Rtr.For the first absorption through the phase (>min), the electrode potential shifted with an increase in dilation, which suggests nonequilibrium PdH2-x precipitation followed by conversion to the phase and void formation. Although there was a remarkable lack of any dependence on the number of repetitions of the values of the limiting resistance and potential corresponding to the + and + void coexistence, the onset of the phase, min, increased as the number of repetitions increased. The volumetric ratio for an increase in the H/Pd ratio corresponds to the absorption in high-density defect areas surrounding voids. During repeated absorption and desorption in the C applied pulse mode, the apparent molar volumes of the + phase coexistence show that absorption proceeds inhomogenously, in contrast to the first absorption in the A applied pulse mode.