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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.
Terry Mitchell, Frederick G. Hammitt
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 53 | Number 3 | March 1974 | Pages 263-276
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23352
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The effects upon spherically symmetric bubble collapse of the various thermodynamic parameters, including interfacial nonequilibrium boundary effects, are examined numerically for the case of cavitation or highly subcooled boiling bubbles. Pressures in the surrounding liquid as a function of time and distance are computed. It is shown that the value selected for the evaporation coefficient, not well known experimentally, has a very strong influence on collapse pressures and velocities. The thermal diffusivity of the bubble contents is also significant but somewhat less important. The effect of nonequilibrium temperature or pressure discontinuities at the interface was found negligible for the cases studied.