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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.
P. F. Rago, N. Goldstein, E. Tochilin
Nuclear Technology | Volume 8 | Number 3 | March 1970 | Pages 302-309
Paper | Technique | doi.org/10.13182/NT70-A28678
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A fissian foil-Lexan detector system has been developed to monitor reactor neutrons. It is similar to the system based on counting fission gamma rays but has some advantages; i.e., permanently recorded tracks that can be read any time after exposure; integrated recording; microgram amounts of fissionable material needed; and the elimination of specialized gamma-ray counting equipment. Fission-product damage tracks in the Lexan (or mica) are counted under an optical microscope. For thick foils, fluence is determined from the sensitivity factor of 1.16 × 10−5 tracks/(neutron-barn). Fluence measurements with the two systems are compared for several reactor environments while dose measurements are compared with tissue-equivalent calorimeter values. The use of 232Th to replace 238U as the fissionable isotope for the energy interval of 1.5 to 3 MeV, and of 235U to replace 239Pu for energies <600 ke V, was also investigated. Neptunium is retained as the fissionable material for the energy interval 600 keV to 1.5 MeV and the sulfur-activation detector for energies >3 MeV.