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Diversification and the common ground
Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
Who would have thought, just a few years ago, that we would see so many long-standing barriers to new nuclear development falling like dominoes? Public opinion, policy, regulatory reform, finance and investment, design maturity, nuclear fuel enrichment, and fuel fabrication capacity have all advanced with remarkable speed in the United States.
Conventional wisdom holds that the most effective way to scale up the nuclear supply chain is to do so strategically, matching investments to the needs of reactor developers.
Katsumi Hayashi, Hideo Hirayama, Kohei Iwanaga, Kenjiro Kondo, Seishiro Suzuki, Zenko Yoshida, Nobuaki Sato
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 200 | Number 10 | October 2026 | Pages 2334-2345
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2585764
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Knowledge of radioactivity distribution is important for the decommissioning of postaccident plants. We derived methods to obtain the 137Cs contamination density of the inner surface of a pipe using a pinhole-type gamma camera, surface dose rate measurements using a Teletector, a GF10, and a lead-shielded ionization chamber. Using these methods, we obtained the 137Cs contamination density distribution of a Unit 1 standby gas treatment system outdoor pipe at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station. Considering the characteristics of each method, these results were consistent. We obtained useful data for the decommissioning program.