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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.
C. J. Thompson
Nuclear Technology | Volume 6 | Number 6 | June 1969 | Pages 559-566
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT69-A28285
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A system for neutron activation analysis using an Sb:Be neutron source and an on-line PDP-9 computer is described. The irradiation of samples in a flux of 6 × 108 n/(cm2 sec) and the counting of samples with Ge(Li) detectors are controlled by the computer. The system is controlled either manually or automatically for routine analysis of many samples. The program allows the determination of the intensity and energy of gamma rays. It also displays and plots spectra and stores them on magnetic “Dectape.”