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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.
K. J. Miller, W. R. McCurnin
Nuclear Technology | Volume 5 | Number 3 | September 1968 | Pages 123-129
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT68-A28041
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Detailed postirradiation examinations were performed on six fuel assemblies from Piqua Core I. The assemblies were examined for mechanical integrity, organic coolant deposition (primarily in the heat-transfer regions), and fuel burnup capability. Fuel cylinder dimensional measurements indicated the assemblies could reach their design average burnup of 3000 MWD/MTU.