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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.
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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.