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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.
P. E. McGrath, W. K. Foell
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 45 | Number 3 | September 1971 | Pages 237-244
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A19076
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A new collision probability formulation of integral transport theory is applied in the analysis of small-sample reactivity measurements. The calculational technique features a blending of diffusion theory, used to represent the unperturbed reactor, and integral transport theory, used to represent the sample and that portion of the reactor significantly perturbed by the sample. The theory forms the basis for a perturbation theory computer program, COPERT, which, in conjunction with the one-dimensional diffusion theory program MACH-1, has been applied to the analysis of central reactivity measurements in the ZPR-3 fast critical assembly. The method provides a convenient means of accounting for sample-size effects.