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NRC’s David Wright visits the Hill and more NRC news
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is in the spotlight today for three very different reasons. First, NRC Chair David Wright was on Capitol Hill yesterday for his renomination hearing in front of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee. Second, the NRC released its updated milestone schedules according to the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (NEIMA) and the executive orders signed by President Trump last month; and third, as reported by Reuters on Tuesday, 28 former NRC officials have condemned the dismissal of Commissioner Hanson earlier this month.
Renomination: EPW Committee chair Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R., W.Va.) opened the hearing with a statement praising Wright’s experience and emphasized the urgency of stable leadership at the NRC.
“China is executing a rapid build-out of its nuclear industry,” Capito said. “The demand for clean, baseload power is skyrocketing as we position America to win the AI race.”
Taro Ueki
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 160 | Number 2 | October 2008 | Pages 242-252
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE160-242
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The stationarity diagnostics of source distribution in the iterated-source Monte Carlo computation for nuclear criticality and static nuclear reactor analysis have been studied using relative entropy and the Wilcoxon signed rank sum. Novel aspects of the diagnostics are (a) the relative entropy of permuted and nonpermuted source distributions and (b) a series of differenced relative entropies. Item (a) combined with averaging over random permutations has some smoothing effect on the fluctuation through iteration cycles. The benefit of item (b) is twofold: The differencing works as decorrelation, and the mean in stationarity of a differenced series is exactly zero. Therefore, the Wilcoxon signed rank sum has been applied to check the stationarity of the differenced relative entropy series. Another novel aspect of the diagnostics is the use of a problem-independent number of iteration cycles preceding the current iteration cycle upon the computation of the Wilcoxon signed rank sum. In addition, it has been shown that the progressive relative entropy in previous work can be used and the moving average of the Wilcoxon signed rank sums of its differenced series is a stringent measure of stationarity. Numerical results are presented for two- and three-dimensional modeling of an initial core of pressurized water reactors.