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Wright officially sworn in for third term at the NRC
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently announced that David Wright, after being nominated by President Trump and confirmed by the Senate, was ceremonially sworn in as NRC chair on September 8.
This swearing in comes more than a month after Wright began his third term on the commission; he began leading as chair July 31. His term will conclude on June 30, 2030.
Derek H. Lister, Gopala Venkateswaran, Norman Arbeau
Nuclear Technology | Volume 140 | Number 3 | December 2002 | Pages 288-302
Technical Paper | Nuclear Plant Operations and Control | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3340
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In water-cooled reactors measures to minimize the radiation fields due to the transport and deposition of 60Co are important to ensure low occupational doses of radiation. For example, it is now accepted practice to add zinc to boiling water reactor coolant to minimize 60Co transport and pickup by surfaces. This paper describes a study of the kinetics of 60Co deposition on Type 316 stainless steel in neutral, partially deoxygenated water at 563 K and 10.2 MPa with and without zinc traced with 65Zn. The effect of zinc addition on the corrosion rate of preoxidized stainless steel was also studied using relatively high concentrations of additive. General observations and a mathematical model of the corrosion rate provide insights into the possible mechanisms involved.
