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2025 annual assessments out for U.S. reactors
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has released its 2025 annual performance assessments of the country’s 95 operating commercial nuclear reactors. And of the 95 reactors, all but five earned the highest marks.
Nuclear power plant assessments can fall under one of five categories: Licensee Response, Regulatory Response, Degraded Cornerstone, Degraded Performance, and Unacceptable Performance. Ninety reactors fell under Licensee Response, the highest performance category in safety and security. Plants that achieve this level of performance are subject to a Reactor Oversight Process (ROP) baseline inspection.
A. J. H. Donné
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 49 | Number 2 | February 2006 | Pages 367-374
Technical Paper | Plasma and Fusion Energy Physics - Diagnostics | doi.org/10.13182/FST06-A1136
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For a better understanding of the physical mechanisms underlying anomalous plasma transport it is necessary to diagnose the fluctuations in various plasma parameters along with their cross-correlations. After a brief introduction into the mathematical tools for fluctuation analysis, an overview will be given of the most important techniques for diagnosing various fluctuating quantities.