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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.
D. E. Grosvenor, I. O. Winsch, W. E. Miller, G. J. Bernstein, R. D. Pierce
Nuclear Technology | Volume 5 | Number 5 | November 1968 | Pages 329-332
Technical Papers and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT68-A27999
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Pyrochemical processes under development at Argonne National Laboratory utilize molten metals and halide salts as solvents to separate molten fuel materials from each other and from fission products. These solvents are pressure-transferred between process vessels through resistance-heated transfer tubes operating at 850°C. The transfer tubes, J- or U-shaped, are fabricated from gun-drilled Mo-30 wt% W bar stock and shaped by hot-bending in a jig. A technique for joining two pieces of tubing was developed because the overall length of available tubing was limited. The transfer tubes are wrapped with controiled-voltage resistance heaters, covered with insulation, and protected by steel shells.