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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.
M. J. F. Notley
Nuclear Technology | Volume 3 | Number 6 | June 1967 | Pages 334-342
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT67-A27855
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A method has been evolved for the calculation of the fission-product gas pressure inside operating UO2 fuel elements. The calculations are based on a model in which the hot center of the UO2 pellet is assumed to flow plastically under stress, and the outer annulus is cracked. The calculated pressures are shown to be in reasonable agreement with experimental measurements of the gas pressure inside fuel elements.
