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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.
S. V. Topp
Nuclear Technology | Volume 7 | Number 2 | August 1969 | Pages 139-143
Economics | doi.org/10.13182/NT69-A28357
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The utility of 238Pu produced from 237Np irradiation depends on the amount of 236Pu present. Calculations of 236Pu produced by the (n,2n) reaction on 237Np indicate that light-water power reactors produce 238Pu containing 10 to 20 times as much 236Pu as that produced in the USAEC D2O-or graphite-moderated plutonium production reactors, and the liquid-metal fast breeders produce 300 to 400 times as much 236Pu as the production reactors.
