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RIC session focuses on interagency collaboration
Attendees at last week’s 2026 Regulatory Information Conference, hosted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, saw extensive discussion of new reactor technologies, uprates, fusion, multiunit deployments, supply chain, and much more.
With the industry in a state of rapid evolution, there was much to discuss. Connected to all these topics was one central theme: the ongoing changes at the NRC. With massively shortened timelines, the ADVANCE Act and Executive Order 14300, and new interagency collaboration and authorization pathways in mind, speakers spent much of the RIC exploring what the road ahead looks like for the NRC.
I. Yanagisawa, N. Ueda, M. Yamada, R. Saito, T. Yamada, M. Tomita, H. Nakashima, O. Motojima, M. Nakasuga, A. Iiyoshi, K. Uo
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 1302-1307
Alternate Concepts | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A23036
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A conceptual design of a heliotron power reactor, which is a steady state reactor with a continuous helical coil, has been developed. The major features of the heliotron reactor include modular blanket and shield structure, modified winding helical coil, local divertor for impurity and ash removal, and NbTi conductor with subcooled He-II bath cooling. The objective of this design study is to present a viable design of the heliotron power reactor.