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Deep Space: The new frontier of radiation controls
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.
Jean Mégy, Robert Harold Allardice, Klaus Ebert, Jean-Marie Morelle, Paolo Venditti
Nuclear Technology | Volume 88 | Number 3 | December 1989 | Pages 283-289
Technical Paper | Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34310
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The European experience with the fast breeder reactor (FBR) fuel cycle covers >20 yr of work, and considerable experience with fuel fabrication has been accumulated. The existing facilities in Europe, with minor adaptations, are adequate to manufacture all the fuel required for European FBRs up to the end of this century. The feasibility of FBR fuel reprocessing has been widely demonstrated in European facilities at significant scale. Research and development is proceeding on all aspects of reprocessing and the two European pilot plants (Dounreay and Marcoule) are invaluable tools for supporting the design of an industrial-scale reprocessing plant.
