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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. L. Jassby, H. H. Towner
Nuclear Technology | Volume 31 | Number 2 | November 1976 | Pages 159-163
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT76-A31678
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If a beam-driven deuterium-tritium tokamak reactor is operated at the maximum density allowed by both pressure limitation and adequate neutral-beam penetration, the 14-MeV neutron wall loading increases approximately linearly with magnetic field or vertical elongation of the plasma. With elongation = 3, Btmax - 15 T (at the coil windings), Wbeam = 200 keV, and Q = 1.0, the maximum wall loading is ∼5 MW/m2.