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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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In commercial nuclear power, there has always been a deliberate tension between the regulator and the utility owner. The regulator fundamentally exists to protect the worker, and the utility, to make a profit. It is a win-win balance.
From the U.S. nuclear industry has emerged a brilliantly successful occupational nuclear safety record—largely the result of an ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) process that has driven exposure rates down to what only a decade ago would have been considered unthinkable. In the U.S. nuclear industry, the system has accomplished an excellent, nearly seamless process that succeeds to the benefit of both employee and utility owner.
F. K. Boese, H. Kadella
Nuclear Technology | Volume 38 | Number 2 | April 1978 | Pages 235-241
Technical Paper | Low-Temperature Nuclear Heat / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT78-A32018
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Oil prices have been rising significantly in recent years. The result is a steady lowering of the economic break-even point of nuclear power plants. Already, our actual oil price level allows nuclear dual-purpose plants to become efficient below a thermal power of 800 MW. Two special applications of an Integrated Pressurized Water Reactor System use the waste heat of-the turbine for district heating or water desalination. An integrated system of heat pump and nuclear heat source avoids the usual transportation losses from the power plant to the compressor of the heat pumps.
