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NRC proposes changes to its rules on nuclear materials
In response to Executive Order 14300, “Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,” the NRC is proposing sweeping changes to its rules governing the use of nuclear materials that are widely used in industry, medicine, and research. The changes would amend NRC regulations for the licensing of nuclear byproduct material, some source material, and some special nuclear material.
As published in the May 18 Federal Register, the NRC is seeking public comment on this proposed rule and draft interim guidance until July 2.
Hiroshi Motoda, Tamotsu Hayase, Yasunori Bessho, Kanji Kato
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 4 | April 1982 | Pages 648-666
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A18975
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A coarse mesh nodal coupling method, a well-known technique often used in steady-state neutronics analysis of light water reactors, is extended to a problem of transient phenomena of boiling water reactors (BWRs). Spatial collapse is attempted to develop a multiregion neutronics model and the associated axially one-dimensional and one-point models. These models are numerically solved through the use of two approximations, quasi-static and prompt jump. The results as applied to a reference BWR core for transient analyses, initiated by artificial thermal-hydraulic disturbances, are presented to show the practicality of the approach. The nature of the optimal weighting function necessary for the spatial collapse and for the quasi-static approximation is also discussed.