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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.
G. LaVergne, J. E. Robinson, J. G. Martel
Nuclear Technology | Volume 26 | Number 1 | May 1975 | Pages 12-22
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24400
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The matching of D-T fusion breeders to heavy-water CANDU-type reactors has been studied using the transport code ANISN to evaluate the neutron transport and breeding characteristics of a low-power-gain fusion blanket. The fusion blanket consists of a niobium structure, natural lithium coolant, and a graphite reflector with 2- to 6-cm-thick zones of Th, ThO2, or ThC situated between the first wall and the reflector. Total breeding ratios of 1.40 to 1.50 have been calculated. Using the calculated breeding ratios, a system period of less than 10 years is determined for proposed solid thorium fuels. The reaction rate ratio of fusion to fission is less than unity.