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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.
Ricardo Artigas
Nuclear Technology | Volume 19 | Number 1 | July 1973 | Pages 16-20
Technical Paper | Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT73-A31314
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A model is described which permits conservative homogenization of a random distribution of low-enriched UO2 pellets in a low-enriched UO2 powder and water mixture. The model is used with a Monte Carlo criticality code to demonstrate the criticality safety of General Electric Model BU-5 bulk uranium shipping containers which are used for the transportation of unirradiated uranium compounds in the form of powder or pellets, moderated to any degree and enriched to a maximum of 4 wt% in the 235U isotope.
