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What’s reshaping nuclear licensing and compliance today?
Mark Reidmeyer
It is the convergence of urgency, innovation, and modernization that is reshaping nuclear licensing and compliance today.
For decades, nuclear licensing operated in a relatively stable environment built around large light water reactors, predictable review cycles, and well-established regulatory pathways. Today, that model is evolving rapidly. Advanced reactors, AI-enabled tools, digital engineering platforms, grid reliability concerns, and aggressive decarbonization goals are all pushing the industry—and regulators—to move faster and think differently.
R. K. Hilliard, A. K. Postma, J. D. McCormack,*, L. F. Coleman**
Nuclear Technology | Volume 10 | Number 4 | April 1971 | Pages 499-519
Technical Paper | Symposium on Reactor Containment Spray System Technology / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A16261
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Eight large-scale spray experiments have been made in the 26 500 ft3 Containment Systems Experiment (CSE) vessel. In each experiment a major parameter was changed. Spray fluxes ranged from 0.025 to 0.3 gal/(min ft2). Spray drop size was 770- or 1210-µm mass median diameter (MMD). Atmospheric condition was air at room temperature and pressure or steam-air initially at 250°F, 48 psia. Three types of spray solutions were used: boric acid, pH 5; boric acid plus NaOH, pH 9.5; and boric acid plus 1 wt% Na2S2O3 with NaOH added to pH 9.5. The only major parameters not varied were the drop fall height (38 ft) and the gas-to-liquid volume ratio (∼80).