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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.
Emil E. Leitz
Nuclear Technology | Volume 91 | Number 1 | July 1990 | Pages 11-15
Technical Paper | Safety of Next Generation Power Reactor / Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A34437
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The next-generation power reactors need to include consideration for collection and application of operating data and follow-on analysis in plant designs to enhance future use of the data during the life of the plant. The N Reactor experience at the Hanford Site supports the need for such a system, and some of the elements that such a system would require are described. An equipment identification code for each significant plant component is fundamental to an information system. This unique code is used to maintain equipment history files and to cross-reference other data records to these files. The system output must be oriented to ensure that complete data on any specific component are available on demand.
