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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.
Lauren L. Ball, Paul J. Richardson, Dean W. Sheibley
Nuclear Technology | Volume 7 | Number 4 | October 1969 | Pages 393-396
Techniques | doi.org/10.13182/NT69-A28484
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Tungsten-184 is a useful dosimeter for thermal neutrons, particularly for high temperature applications. Correlation of neutron flux with 59Co activation and 235U fission density for short-term irradiations is shown. The 184W thermal-neutron capture cross-section in the Plum Brook Reactor was found to be 1.94 ± 0.08 b. Cadmium ratios for 184W are ∼⅕ of the value found for 59Co in differing spectral regions of the reactor. The radiochemistry and counting techniques for 185W are described.
