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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.
H. M. Ferrari, R. J. Allio
Nuclear Technology | Volume 2 | Number 6 | December 1966 | Pages 492-498
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT66-A27544
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Fuel-element performance in operating pressurized-water reactors has been excellent. Over 250 000 fuel elements containing UO2, UO2-ThO2, or UO2-PuO2 fuel clad with iron- or zirconium-base alloys have performed reliably over a broad range of operating conditions. Experimental evidence to date suggests that fuel elements for pressurized-water reactors can be subjected to more demanding conditions.
