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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.
Neil E. Todreas, James A. Turi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 13 | Number 1 | January 1972 | Pages 36-52
Technical Paper | Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT72-A31065
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The available experimental data applicable to mixing rates between subchannels in wire wrapped liquid metal fast breeder reactor fuel assemblies are reviewed. A rate of mass mixing between interior subchannels of 0.03 in terms of the dimensionless ratio β (i.e., the ratio of the mixing flow rate per unit length per unit of spacing between pins to the axial mass flux) is recommended as conservative for the typical geometries of present U.S. fuel bundles. The quantitative dependence of mass mixing rates with key variables of subchannel geometry, wire lead, and pin pitch to diameter ratio is presented and discussed.