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ANS hosts webinar on criticality safety standards
A diagram depicting the NRC’s regulatory structure for nuclear criticality safety. (Image: Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series last month. RP3C chair Steven Krahn opened the meeting with brief introductory remarks about the importance of risk-informed, performance based (RIPB) decision-making and the need for new approaches to nuclear design that go beyond conventional and deterministic methods.
D. E. POST1, S. A. Cohen1, J. Hogan2, W. M. Nevins3, P. H. Rutherford1, D. Sigmar4, D. Stotler1, N. A. Uckan2, J. C. Wesley5
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 3 | May 1992 | Pages 1434-1443
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29923
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We have assessed the capability of the international fusion program to provide the physics data needed to support a decision to proceed with the construction of ITER in 1996–1997. We conclude that the international fusion program has the capability to provide the data, but that additional emphasis is needed in two areas, power and particle control and disruptions, for the required data to be available by 1996.
