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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.
J. L. Straalsund, R. L. Fish, G. D. Johnson
Nuclear Technology | Volume 25 | Number 3 | March 1975 | Pages 531-540
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24390
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Thermal transient-test failure data for proto-typic fast test reactor fuel cladding were correlated with failure data from conventional mechanical properties tests. The correlation was developed by the application of a life fraction rule to stress rupture, tensile and tube burst, as well as transient test data and by constructing a Larson-Miller plot which encompasses the stress and temperature range for all four types of tests. The high degree of correlation between the different types of test data indicates that this approach will be useful in the prediction of failures under hypothetical transient conditions. It is shown that the Dorn parameter can be used instead of the Larson-Miller parameter with equal success for the various types of mechanical properties tests.