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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.
M. A. Wakat, S. F. Peterson
Nuclear Technology | Volume 17 | Number 1 | January 1973 | Pages 49-57
Technical Paper | Radioisotope | doi.org/10.13182/NT73-A31253
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An on-line radiochemical monitoring system was developed to provide control information for the pressurized cation exchange chromatography process used at Savannah River to recover kilogram quantities of transplutonium elements. The effluent from the ion exchange column is circulated past Nal, BF3, and Ge(Li) detectors located outside the primary shielding wall. The individual radioisotopes are qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed. The system uses a PDP-9 computer with direct memory access for the pulse-height analysis of incoming data.