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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. De Mastry
Nuclear Technology | Volume 3 | Number 2 | February 1967 | Pages 127-134
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT67-A27810
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The compatibility of tungsten, W-0.9wt%Cb, W-10wt%Re, W-25wt%Re, TZM (Mo-0.5wt%Ti-0.08 wt%Zr), Mo-50wt%Re, and rhenium in static lithium was determined. Exposures were at 2500, 2800, and 3000°F for periods of 100 and 1000 h. Exposures were conducted in TZM containers for all alloys tested. The results obtained must be viewed in light of the dissimilar capsule employed. The tungsten-base materials were not attacked by lithium after 100- or 1000-h exposure at 2500°F. At 2800°F, all of the tungsten-base materials exhibited varying degrees of surface dissolution and grain-boundary penetration. TZM and Mo-50wt%Re alloys were resistant to attack by lithium at up to 3000°F for 100- and 1000-h exposure. Unalloyed rhenium underwent dissimilar metal interaction while immersed in lithium in TZM test capsules for 1000 h at 2500°F and 100 h at 3000°F. Molybdenum was transferred from the TZM corrosion capsule to the rhenium where alloying occurred.