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NRC unveils Part 53 final rule
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has finalized its new regulatory framework for advanced reactors that officials believe will accelerate, simplify, and reduce burdens in the new reactor licensing process.
The final rule arrives more than a year ahead of an end-of-2027 deadline set in the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (NEIMA), the 2019 law that formally directed the NRC to develop a new, technology-inclusive regulatory approach. The resulting rule—10 CFR Part 53, “Risk-Informed, Technology-Inclusive Regulatory Framework for Advanced Reactors”—is commonly referred to as Part 53.
Min Gao, Yi Shi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 199 | Number 2 | February 2025 | Pages 325-337
Note | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2363089
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In this work, we develop a modified implicit Monte Carlo method for the frequency-dependent (multigroup) three-temperature (3T) radiative transfer equations. A new reformulation of the 3T model is utilized to deal with the coupling between the electron and ion energies. This will result in an effective scattering term, together with a combination source term of electron and ion energies, which can be resolved by the Monte Carlo simulations. The method is proven to retain the asymptotic preserving property in the limit where the electron-ion coupling coefficient tends to zero or infinity. Furthermore, numerical simulations confirm the unconditional stability of the new method as well as its ability to preserve the total energy conservation. Several numerical results are presented to showcase the efficacy of this new method.