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Congress receives NRC report on unusual events
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has published its annual report to Congress for fiscal year 2023 on abnormal occurrences involving medical and industrial uses of radioactive material.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 64 | Number 2 | August 2013 | Pages 103-110
ITER | Proceedings of the Twentieth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE-2012) (Part 1), Nashville, Tennessee, August 27-31, 2012 | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A18063
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The paper describes the main tasks related to Configuration Control and illustrates the means in place to assure the control over the technical baseline, schedule and cost and is describing the collaboration with the DA's towards realization on ITER site. It is further summarizing the current status of construction on site and the ongoing preparation work of the Tokamak Complex buildings with the interfaces to be defined and controlled.