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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. Leonard
Nuclear Technology | Volume 6 | Number 3 | March 1969 | Pages 202-208
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT69-A28307
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Chromel/Alumel thermocouples were calibrated at the temperatures of boiling water and melting tin and lead before, during, and after exposure to several cycles of nuclear radiation. A temporary calibration shift of up to 50 µ V was observed at all three calibrating temperatures persisting for at least one hour following cessation of exposure. Comparison with corresponding data from a previous experiment indicates that the relative location of flux and temperature gradients along the thermocouple leads has a major influence on the magnitude of decalibration encountered. The effect is attributed to radiation-produced scattering centers subject to self-annealing processes. For in-pile thermocouple installations, temperature gradients should be restricted to locations outside high-flux regions to minimize potential radiation-dependent, decalibrating effects.