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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.
L. Duchatelle, L. de Nucheze, M. G. Robin
Nuclear Technology | Volume 24 | Number 2 | November 1974 | Pages 123-136
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT74-A31469
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Prior to construction, the modular steam generator of the French 250-MW(e) fast breeder demonstration plant (Phenix) was submitted to a number of tests carried out on scale-one module mockups. The Phenix steam generator consists of seven tube coil-shaped modules operated as countercurrent sodium-to-water (or steam) heat exchangers. We report on the experimental verification of the accuracy of the procedures and models utilized to predict the steady-state heat transfer, the pressure losses, and the static stability of a 15-MW(th) mockup comprised of an economizer-evaporator, a superheater, and a reheater tested for 8000 h on the 5-MW(th) CEA facility at Grand Quevilly, and a 45-MW(th) mock-up comprised of three economizer-evaporators, three superheaters, and three reheaters tested 6200 h at Les Renardières on the 45-MW(th) EDF facility.