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Weaver NRC reappointment gets OK, Senate vote next
The U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee has recommended Douglas Weaver be reappointed to a full five-year term on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission after his current term expires on June 30.
The committee voted 15-4 in support of Weaver’s nomination on Wednesday, clearing the way for a final vote on the Senate floor. If the Senate votes to confirm Weaver, he would serve on the NRC through June 30, 2031.
Yukiharu Ohga
Nuclear Technology | Volume 61 | Number 3 | June 1983 | Pages 465-474
Technical Paper | New Directions in Nuclear Energy with Emphasis on Fuel Cycles / Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT83-A33171
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A program analyzing long-term transients after abnormal incidents, excluding loss-of-coolant accidents, has been developed to assess emergency operation procedures for cold shutdown of reactors. The main program features are:1. The thermal hydraulics in both the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) and the primary containment vessel (PCV) are treated.2. Analytical models of the cooling system are included for not only the emergency core cooling system but other cooling systems that are effective for RPV and PCV cooling.3. The on /off switching of cooling systems by plant interlocks, component failures, and operator actions is simulated.The applicability of this program has been evaluated by simulation of long-term thermal-hydraulic behavior of the boiling water reactor transients initiated by loss of feedwater. From the evaluation results, it has been confirmed that the main program models can assess emergency operation procedures.