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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.
W. R. Martin, J. R. Weir
Nuclear Technology | Volume 1 | Number 2 | April 1965 | Pages 160-167
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NT65-A20485
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The tensile properties of Hastelloy N have been determined after irradiation at 700° C to a dose level of 7 × 1020 n/cm2 (E > 1 MeV) and 9 × 1020 n/cm2 (thermal). The strength and ductility of the material were determined as functions of deformation temperature for the range 20 to 900°C. These properties were also examined as functions of strain rate within the limits of 0.002 and 0.2 in./min (0.005 and 0.5 cm/min) for deformation temperatures of 500, 600, 700, and 800°C., The stress-strain relationship is not affected by irradiation at 700°C. Ductility, as measured by the true uniform and fracture strains, is reduced for deformation temperatures of 500°C and above. The loss in ductility results in a reduction in the true tensile strength. This loss is more significant at test conditions resulting in intergranular failure, such as low strain rates at elevated temperature. Postirradiation annealing of the irradiated alloy does not result in improved ductility. These data are compatible with the experiments suggesting helium generation from the (n,α) reaction of boron as the cause of low ductility., The low ductility of irradiated alloys in general is described in terms of the present knowledge of intergranular fracture. Means of improving the ductility are discussed.