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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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In commercial nuclear power, there has always been a deliberate tension between the regulator and the utility owner. The regulator fundamentally exists to protect the worker, and the utility, to make a profit. It is a win-win balance.
From the U.S. nuclear industry has emerged a brilliantly successful occupational nuclear safety record—largely the result of an ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) process that has driven exposure rates down to what only a decade ago would have been considered unthinkable. In the U.S. nuclear industry, the system has accomplished an excellent, nearly seamless process that succeeds to the benefit of both employee and utility owner.
R. C. Kern, W. C. Coppersmith, Z. R. Rosztoczy
Nuclear Technology | Volume 9 | Number 1 | July 1970 | Pages 70-82
Reactor | Symposium on Theoretical Models for Predicting In-Reactor Performance of Fuel and Cladding Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT70-A28729
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A three-dimensional calculational method has been developed for use in studying xenon oscillations and their control. This method is based on nodal analysis and a modified one-group theory and includes all major feedback mechanisms which are important in xenon transients. Comparisons have been made between the results obtained with this method and with more sophisticated methods and good agreement has been found in all cases. Significant reductions in computing times are obtainable with this method.
