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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.
C. K. Tzou, C. M. Yang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 24 | Number 2 | November 1974 | Pages 246-251
Technical Paper | Analysis | doi.org/10.13182/NT74-A31480
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A cold fuel assay method has been developed for nondestructive burnup determination by gamma-ray spectroscopy. This method utilizes the product of neutron flux and time as one variable to avoid tedious treatment of neutron flux, resident time, and intermittent type of iteration. No chemical or mass spectroscopic analysis is needed; only the photopeak of 137Cs needs to be analyzed. The method has been applied to fuel element No. 25 of the Tsin-Hua open-pool reactor for burnup calculation. A 35-cm3 Ge(Li) detector connected to a 1024 MCA was used.
