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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.
Thomas Gutman
Nuclear Technology | Volume 12 | Number 2 | October 1971 | Pages 162-172
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A31024
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The phenomenon of interaction between air-spaced subcritical units of fissile materials has been investigated experimentally, and more recently using Monte Carlo calculations. Studies of array interactions using Monte Carlo codes indicate that certain techniques of array analysis which proceed from the extension of available experimental data may yield nonconservative results. These areas of apparent nonconservatism cannot be verified from studies of experimental data and may be subject to further question in view of inconsistencies observed among some of the Monte Carlo calculated arrays. Studies of experimental and calculated array data show the differing conclusions which may be developed and point out the need for future work.