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NRC adopts ROP updates
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved a significant overhaul of its Reactor Oversight Process (ROP) baseline inspection program that stresses a leaner, more risk-focused inspection process.
This adoption comes just over a month after NRC officials published their findings on the proposed ROP changes. The changes would reduce the number of hours spent annually on direct inspections at U.S. nuclear power plants by 38 percent.
Shinichiro Toda, Sanac-I. Itoh, Tetsuyuki Kubota, Hiroki Yamaguchi, Atsushi Fukuyama, Kimitaka Itoh
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | April 1995 | Pages 489-492
Confinement and Transport Studies | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11947135
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Poloidal rotation balance equation is obtained to have various bifurcation types of the solutions when various loss mechanisms arc considered in tokamak plasmas. L/H transition in medium sized devices is predicted to be hard type and that in large sized devices tends to become soft type. Ion loss due to bulk viscosity is found to be negligible compared to ion loss cone loss for the typical parameter regime of tokamaks.