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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.
L. E. Hansen, E. D. Clayton, R. C. Lloyd, S. R. Bierman, R. D. Johnson
Nuclear Technology | Volume 6 | Number 4 | April 1969 | Pages 371-380
Technical Papers and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT69-A28347
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To predict the critical parameters of plutonium fueled systems one must establish the accuracy of the computational methods to be employed and the accuracy and applicability of the available critical experiment data with which the calculations are to be compared. The accuracy of a multigroup diffusion theory code, HFN, and a multigroup transport theory code, DTF-IV, was examined by analyzing recent plutonium critical experiments. The experiments cover the entire range of possible moderation ratios, and the plutonium fuels contain as much as 23.2 isotopic percent 240Pu. All three basic geometries are represented by the experimental data examined. Where necessary, the criticality data were corrected, by means of additional experiments and/or calculations, to conform to one-dimensional, clean, homogeneous critical assemblies which could be adequately defined and used as a basis for establishing nuclear criticality safety guidelines.