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NEI chief executive highlights “unlimited potential” for nuclear in state of the industry address
Korsnick
In the Nuclear Energy Institute’s annual State of the Nuclear Energy Industry report, NEI president and CEO and Maria Korsnick expressed optimism about the nuclear industry and she issued a call to action.
Her address was part of NEI’s Nuclear Energy Policy forum. The forum, being held in Washington, D.C., on May 20 and May 21, brings together industry leaders, policy stakeholders, and clean energy experts to discuss nuclear advocacy. Korsnick’s remarks focused on the private capital flowing into the industry, progress on regulatory reform and new nuclear technology, and how the U.S. is trying to take the lead on the global nuclear stage.
“We are here at an unprecedented time in our industry history,” Korsnick said. “I’m proud to say that the nuclear industry has a future of unlimited potential.”
Tachimori Ohba, Satsuharu Takimoto, Yoshio Kitada, Tomio Tsunoda, Akira Kobayashi, Kenji Ishida
Nuclear Technology | Volume 56 | Number 3 | March 1982 | Pages 580-590
Technical Paper | Radiation Biology and Environment | doi.org/10.13182/NT82-A32917
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The environmental monitoring system for radiation exposure due to light water reactor (LWR) nuclear power plant plume is described. This system, employing a NaI(Tl) scintillation detector with an exposure rate conversion circuit, has the capability of highly accurate evaluation of radiation exposure due to an LWR plume with 0.15 million R/yr (39 nC/kg.yr) overevaluation and 0.05 million R/yr (13 nC/kg.yr) underevaluation. Plume exposure is identified by combining the time variation property of the exposure rate with meteorological parameters. Outlines of the present system are described, including monitoring results obtained over a 98-day period by tentative system at an LWR site boundary.
