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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. A. Redfield, S. G. Margolis, J. H. Murphy, G. A. Snyder
Nuclear Technology | Volume 3 | Number 4 | April 1967 | Pages 206-212
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT67-A27757
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Experimental data on the loss of coolant from a pressurized-water test loop are presented. The test loop simulated the components of a full-sized reactor plant with an electrically heated test section, a pressurizer, a heat exchanger, and a circulating coolant pump. Leaks in the coolant system were simulated by rupture disks at various locations. The test results are compared with predictions using the FLASH computer program. The calculated system-pressure transients showed good agreement with the tests. The pressure differential across the test section exhibited an oscillatory behavior, as did the predictions in one of the three tests. Measured test-section temperatures showed a considerable variation from predictions; however, these temperature predictions represent an improvement over those using previous calculation methods.