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NRC unveils Part 53 final rule
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has finalized its new regulatory framework for advanced reactors that officials believe will accelerate, simplify, and reduce burdens in the new reactor licensing process.
The final rule arrives more than a year ahead of an end-of-2027 deadline set in the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (NEIMA), the 2019 law that formally directed the NRC to develop a new, technology-inclusive regulatory approach. The resulting rule—10 CFR Part 53, “Risk-Informed, Technology-Inclusive Regulatory Framework for Advanced Reactors”—is commonly referred to as Part 53.
Hsiang-Shou Cheng, David J. Diamond
Nuclear Technology | Volume 45 | Number 1 | August 1979 | Pages 46-53
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32284
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The response of boiling water reactor in-core detectors undergoing vibration has been calculated. A neutronic model based on calculating the fission activity at a detector position in a planar multibundle environment was employed. The model used eight energy groups and two-dimensional Cartesian geometry in a discrete-ordinates transport approximation. The in-core detector responses due to various detector displacements were calculated as a function of channel box corner wear with different effective in-channel voids, bypass voids, and instrument tube voids. The calculated noise was found to have a linear dependence on channel box wear. This was corroborated by measurements. An increase in in-channel voids was found to increase the noise, while an increase in bypass and instrument tube voids decreased the noise. The presence of a nearby control blade increased the noise.