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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. B. Richman
Nuclear Technology | Volume 1 | Number 3 | June 1965 | Pages 267-270
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NT65-A20512
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Methods were devised to use electrical resistance probes in the low-temperature water-cooled Hanford reactors to measure corrosion continuously during reactor operation and during chemical decontamination. The changing resistance of a corroding test element is compared with the resistance of a protected reference element. Typical probe results showed carbon-steel corrosion ranging from a 1 unit/y equilibrium rate to a 1050 units/y maximum rate during decontamination. (An arbitrary rate scale is used to obviate security classification.) Total corrosion from decontamination was equal to about 1.5 months of reactor operation.