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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.
P. L. Gray
Nuclear Technology | Volume 2 | Number 3 | June 1966 | Pages 213-220
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT66-A27589
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After nearly two years of nuclear operation, personnel entered the pressure vessel of the Heavy Water Components Test Reactor (HWCTR) to repair and modify a gas baffle near the core while irradiated fuel remained in the reactor. The work, which involved removing virtually all the reactor internal components down to the reactor core, was completed in about three weeks. Appropriate shielding and special clothing kept radiation exposure of personnel within allowable Savannah River Plant guides.