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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. E. Kaiser
Nuclear Technology | Volume 25 | Number 1 | January 1975 | Pages 138-149
Technical Paper | Instrument | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24356
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Analytical corrections for the effect of subcritical reactivity on /βeff, detector efficiency, and 240Pu source worth in control-rod-group worth measurements in zero-power plutonium reactor Assembly 3 have been evaluated. Calculations of each factor were performed for a number of subcritical configurations in Phases 1B and 2; the results are presented and compared to the critical reference case. An evaluation of the method is included to establish a logical and efficient procedure for determining such corrections for future assemblies, which shows that extrapolations between similar configurations can be made accurately on the basis of only one or two rod patterns.