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The human factor in licensing and operating the next generation of nuclear plants
As human factors specialists working at the intersection of human performance and nuclear operations, we are witnessing one of the nuclear sector’s most significant transitions in decades. The emergence of small modular reactors, microreactors, and other advanced designs is reshaping the industry’s landscape. Digital instrumentation and controls, passive safety systems, and increased automation are creating opportunities for greater safety margins and more flexible operation. These same features also fundamentally redefine what it means to “operate” a nuclear plant. Interactions among human roles, automation, and passive systems shape how people maintain awareness, exercise judgment, and intervene when necessary. These developments affect both operational realities and the regulatory foundations on which nuclear safety is built.
Sherif S. Nafee
Nuclear Technology | Volume 192 | Number 1 | October 2015 | Pages 84-90
Technical Note | Radiation Transport and Protection | doi.org/10.13182/NT14-89
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The progress of modern detector arrays was based on their good angular resolution, which has a great impact on gamma-ray spectroscopy with relativistic fragmentation beams and, thus, allows studies of the most exotic nuclei and discovery of superdeformed states of high spins. Recently, a fast timing array was designed for the future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research for studying the very short-lived nuclei (of several subnanoseconds) at the extremes of existence. For this purpose, several gamma-ray detector array geometries were designed and simulated to maximize the solid angle and enhance the timing precision and efficiencies. Therefore, the probability correction approach has been applied in the present work to calibrate the newly designed gamma-ray conical array for the fast timing array. The calculated full-energy peak efficiency values for the array were compared to the simulated ones by the GEANT 4 code published in the literature. Results showed a reasonably low-percentage relative difference between the calculated and the reported simulated results <4.5% on average.