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NRC v. Texas: Supreme Court weighs challenge to NRC authority in spent fuel storage case
The State of Texas has not one but two ongoing federal court challenges to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that could, if successful, turn decades of NRC regulations, precedent, and case law on its head.
C. W. Sayles
Nuclear Technology | Volume 9 | Number 5 | November 1970 | Pages 694-699
Paper | Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT70-A28744
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A method is presented for the fuel element designer to relate the reliability required of the fuel element to its design. Random and systematic uncertainties are used to determine the fraction of fuel rods that can exceed some limit and to determine the probability that the fraction exceeding the limit is less than that allowed. The method is used with analytical models of fuel and cladding behavior. The method requires that the designer not only know the values for the variables in his analytical model, he must also know the uncertainties in these variables. When using this technique, the fuel element designer can see which of the various uncertainties are contributing the most to the uncertainty in the margin. Those uncertainties that contribute the most are those that merit additional expenditure for research and development or additional quality control effort.
