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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.
A. Smaardyk, C. J. Divona, E. Hutter
Nuclear Technology | Volume 10 | Number 2 | February 1971 | Pages 139-159
Technical Paper and Note | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A30922
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The Instrumented Subassembly System supplies the means of measuring operating parameters of specimen fuels, instruments, and related components in the EBR-II core. The system consists of an instrumented subassembly, an extension tube with seals and connections for the instrument lead wires, a drive to make it compatible with fuel handling operations, and recording and data logging equipment. The instrumented subassembly is located in the fifth row of the core (replacing a control rod), is cooled by flowing sodium of 700 to 900°F, and is exposed to a total flux of ∼ 1.9 × 1015 n/(cm2 sec) at 50-MW reactor power. A prototype subassembly, containing 23 instruments was successfully tested in the reactor for 140 days (3856 MWd).