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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.
Donald J. Dudziak, R. A. Krakowski
Nuclear Technology | Volume 25 | Number 1 | January 1975 | Pages 32-55
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24347
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Induced radioactivity and afterheat in fusion reactor blanket structures and magnetic coils are essential inputs for environmental impact studies. These quantities have been calculated for a reference theta-pinch reactor (RTPR) and compared with results reported for other fusion reactors and typical fast fission reactors. Major indepen-dent variables considered in the RTPR analysis were structural material (Nb—1% Zr, V—20% Ti), 14.1-MeV neutron wall loading (0.2 to 6.7 MW/m2), operating time (1 to 20 yr) and time after shutdown (0 to 30 000 yr). For a given operating time large radioactivity contributions from 95Nb render higher [Ci/W(th)J and {Ci/[W(th)yr]} values at higher wall loadings and <1 yr after shutdown. At long times after shutdown this dependence is reversed and represents an advantage relative to long-term radwaste storage. Activity from V— 20% Ti is insensitive to wall loading or operating time. For either material, afterheat power densities are about two orders of magnitude lower than for fission reactors.