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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. H. Roberts, A. N. Behkami
Nuclear Technology | Volume 4 | Number 3 | March 1968 | Pages 182-186
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT68-A26383
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Improvements in a technique for deducing the spectrum of fast neutrons from the measurement of proton recoil tracks in nuclear emulsions are described. The source of neutrons may be anisotropic. Tests were made by placing Ilford L4 emulsion plates in an assembly of depleted uranium (0.21% 235U) in which neutrons are produced by photofission. The photofission was induced by bremsstrahlung produced when a pulsed 30-MeV electron beam from a LINAC hit a target of depleted uranium within the assembly. Special development with amidol developer was used to reduce chemical fog and gamma-ray background in the emulsions, permitting a measurement of proton tracks down to about two microns. The neutron spectrum from ≈ 0.3 to 2.5 MeV is deduced from the measurements. Computer programs were developed to make the calculations. Results up to ≈ 0.9 MeV are compared with the neutron spectrum measured by time-of-flight techniques. Satisfactory agreement is obtained.