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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.
C. R. Drumm, W. C. Fan, J. H. Renken
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 1 | May 1991 | Pages 16-49
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23805
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The ability to efficiently model coupled electron-photon transport is essential for determining the response of electronics components to nuclear radiation environments. Furthermore, to fully characterize the effect of many different radiation environments on a component, an adjoint transport capability is desirable. The theory of adjoint electron-photon transport is described with the CEPXSZONEDANT-LD discrete ordinates code package and the method is applied to a set of example problems representative of those encountered in radiation effects testing. Adjoint transport, in addition to efficiently modeling radiation source variations, can effectively model geometry variations for certain classes of problems. A new linear-discontinuous approximation of the continuous slowing down operator that introduces no upscatter is also developed.