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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. Kangilaski, F. R. Shober
Nuclear Technology | Volume 5 | Number 4 | October 1968 | Pages 283-285
Technical Paper and Note | Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT68-A28032
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Prediction of the room-temperature fatigue life of Type-347 stainless steel, irradiated to 5.5 × 1021 and 11 × 1021 n/cm2, was attempted from tensile tests and the use of Manson's relationship. It was found that the total strain vs cycles-to-failure for irradiated Type-347 stainless steel can be predicted reasonably well for total strains of 1 to 2% at both levels of irradiation. However, the predicted fatigue lives were conservative for total strains that are <1% for material irradiated to a fast fluence of 11 × 1021 n/cm2. Not enough experimental data points were available to correlate the measured fatigue life with predicted fatigue life at total strains of <1% for stainless steel irradiated to a fast fluence of 5.5 × 1021 n/cm2.