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Proposed rule for more flexible licensing under Part 53 is open for comment
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has published a proposed rule that has been five years in the making: Risk-Informed, Technology-Inclusive Regulatory Framework for Advanced Reactors. The rule, which by law must take its final form before the end of 2027, would let the NRC and license applicants use technology-inclusive approaches and risk-informed, performance-based techniques to effectively license any nuclear technology. This is a departure from two licensing options with light water reactor–specific regulatory requirements that applicants can already choose.
Angel Antonov, Andrej A. Bogdzel, Yurij M. Gledenov, Viacheslav G. Tishin
Nuclear Technology | Volume 59 | Number 3 | December 1982 | Pages 526-531
Technical Paper | The Backfill as an Engineered Barrier for Radioactive Waste Management / Technique | doi.org/10.13182/NT82-A33010
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The reported alpha-particle detector consists of eight flat proportional chambers connected in pairs. It is designed for measurement of the (n,α) reaction on resonance neutrons from a pulsed neutron source with a pulse duration of ∼50 ns. The target’s total area is 10 000 cm2, which allows the use of large amounts of investigated materials (up to 100 g). The detector is used as a low-background counter of alpha particles. Its background is <3 × 10−4 count/cm2·s at a neutron flux of >106 n/cm2·s. For an integral neutron flux of ∼1012 n/cm2, stable operation of the detector was obtained.
