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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.
Masahiro Kinoshita, Yuji Naruse
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 82 | Number 4 | December 1982 | Pages 469-475
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21461
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This Note reports remarkable improvements in the previously reported mathematical model for multi-component separating cascades, which are applicable to the cases where the interstage flows and the stage separation factors are input variables for the calculations. The number of the independent variables is greatly decreased for much more efficient iterative calculations by the multidimensional Newton-Raphson method. Particularly, if the stage separation factors are independent of concentrations of the up and down streams, the improved model presents great decreases both in the computation time needed at each iterative step and in the number of total iterations. Several numerical experiments made for a five-component system of N2-O2-41 Ar-85Kr-133Xe, which are separated by using the porous membrane method, indicate that the total computation time is shortened by almost two orders of magnitude if the improved model is used.