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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.
D. M. Alger, S. R. Bull
Nuclear Technology | Volume 17 | Number 2 | February 1973 | Pages 189-192
Technical Paper | Instrument | doi.org/10.13182/NT73-A31246
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A high resolution thermal-neutron radiography facility has been designed and constructed at the 5-MW University of Missouri Research Reactor Facility. Neutrons leaving the core pass through 3 in. of beryllium, 13 in. of graphite, 4 in. of lead, and 8 in. of bismuth before entering the variable aperture of the conical collimator. This filtering produces a beam with a neutron-to-gamma-ray ratio >107 n/(cm1 mR). The variable aperture permits beam resolutions from 28:1 to 400:1 with neutron fluxes in the 13- × 13-in. exposure chamber from 8 × 107 to 4.7 × 105 n/(cm2 sec), respectively.