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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.
E. A. Straker, F. J. Muckenthaler
Nuclear Technology | Volume 6 | Number 4 | April 1969 | Pages 274-278
Technical Papers and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT69-A28334
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The relative power distribution in the TSF-SNAP reactor was determined by scanning individual fuel elements for fission-product gamma rays, and the absolute fission rate was determined from uranium-foil activation. Numerical integration of the fission density over the core volume gave an absolute power calibration for detectors and foils external to the core. Calculations of both the axial and radial power distributions by Monte Carlo and discrete ordinates methods were in excellent agreement with the measured distributions.