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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.
James H. Roberts, Song-Teh Huang, Roland J. Armani, Raymond Gold
Nuclear Technology | Volume 5 | Number 4 | October 1968 | Pages 247-252
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT68-A28026
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Solid-state track recorders (SSTR) of muscovite mica have provided absolute fission rates and fission ratios for 235U and 238U in ZPR-6, Assembly 5. The results agree well with diffusion theory and satisfactorily with radiochemical fission rate measurements. However, comparisons with fission chamber measurements reveal some differences, which can be attributed to the perturbing influence of the fission counter itself. Due to the high sensitivity of the SSTR method, measurements were readily extended into the blanket region of the assembly. Simplicity, reliability, and the wide sensitivity range make SSTR measurements an unusually powerful method for fission rate studies in low-power reactors.