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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.
V. P. Nagornyj
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 18 | Number 3 | November 1990 | Pages 407-413
Alpha Particles in Fusion Research | Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29275
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The influence of weak distortion of a stellarator field on fast alpha-particle losses is considered. The analysis is carried out with the simplest example of a ripple-like distortion and shows that due to specific resonances this distortion (even of very small amplitude) can result in a rapid loss of high-energy particles and in the formation of a “loss cone” in the alpha-particle phase space.
