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The transformation of the NRC: 50 years of commissioners
The dust is beginning to settle following the whirlwind of changes at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over the past year, and 2025 ultimately may be viewed as a transformative year, as well as the year the NRC celebrated its golden anniversary. The 12 months of that milestone year brought more change to the agency in its composition, its mandate, and its relationship to the executive branch than any comparable period in the preceding four decades.
Now at 51 years and counting, the NRC is working with a full commission and issuing new rulemakings to both regulate and support the next round of nuclear deployments. With the turbulence of 2025 still fresh in our minds, Nuclear News decided it was a good time to revisit the professional backgrounds of all 42 NRC commissioners who have served over the agency’s 50-year history to see how the composition of the commission has evolved over time.
Kenichi Yoshioka, Mitsuaki Yamaoka, Kouji Hiraiwa, Takanori Kitada
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 195 | Number 1 | January 2021 | Pages 101-117
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2020.1788847
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The void reactivity of a fuel assembly with a streaming channel was measured in a simulated light water reactor critical lattice. The void reactivity was defined as the difference of reactivity ρ between different void conditions. Stainless steel and Zircaloy are candidates for the streaming channel material. Aluminum was used in this measurement because it is inexpensive and its absorption cross section is similar to that of Zircaloy. Two types of streaming channels were used: one made of aluminum and the other made of stainless steel. The two streaming channels were compared in terms of the difference in void reactivity. Measured values were calculated using a continuous-energy Monte Carlo code, MCNP6.1, with the JENDL-4.0 and ENDF/B-VIII.0 nuclear data libraries. The measured values and the calculated values agree within an error range of approximately 10% for the aluminum streaming channel and approximately 20% for the stainless steel streaming channel. The streaming effect of reactivity was deduced from the changes of migration area and buckling, which were measured using the water-height coefficient of reactivity and the axial fission-rate distribution.