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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.
T. Meshii, J. A. Ford
Nuclear Technology | Volume 7 | Number 1 | July 1969 | Pages 76-83
Instrument | doi.org/10.13182/NT69-A28388
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A new calibration has been developed for the electromagnetic flowmeters located on the 14-in. lines of the primary sodium coolant system of the Enrico Fermi Atomic Power Plant. This new calibration has incorporated the experimental hydraulic characteristics of the primary sodium coolant loop, the voltage outputs of the flowmeters on the 14- and 6-in. lines, and the original calibration of the flowmeters on the 6-in. lines. Utilizing this new calibration, the system pressure drop was found to vary as the 1.9'th power of the flow rate of the primary system. This relationship is in good agreement with theory. A comparison of the measured sodium flow using the new calibration with the calculated value from heat balance measurements showed good agreement, with an average deviation of 1.7%. (The “as-read” values from the flowmeters based on the previous calibration, which were developed using pump hydraulic characteristics and the pump affinity laws, were too high by an average of 10%.) This new calibration is now being used in the Fermi plant.