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The transformation of the NRC: 50 years of commissioners
The dust is beginning to settle following the whirlwind of changes at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over the past year, and 2025 ultimately may be viewed as a transformative year, as well as the year the NRC celebrated its golden anniversary. The 12 months of that milestone year brought more change to the agency in its composition, its mandate, and its relationship to the executive branch than any comparable period in the preceding four decades.
Now at 51 years and counting, the NRC is working with a full commission and issuing new rulemakings to both regulate and support the next round of nuclear deployments. With the turbulence of 2025 still fresh in our minds, Nuclear News decided it was a good time to revisit the professional backgrounds of all 42 NRC commissioners who have served over the agency’s 50-year history to see how the composition of the commission has evolved over time.
Jason B. Meng, Francesco Deleo (TerraPower)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 51-59
The TerraPower-developed mechanical analysis code OXBOW is used to evaluate the mechanical performance of Traveling Wave Reactor core assemblies. Benchmarking work was performed using OXBOW to compare displacement and contact load results against a variety of mechanical analysis codes from the International Working Group on Fast Reactors (IWGFR) for a set of well-defined assembly conditions. Significant differences in results were found in the benchmark problem modeling a thermally bowing row of assemblies in a limited free bow core restraint configuration. This is due to a bridging effect which occurs due to differences in contact modeling methodology. Additionally, significant displacement differences in results were found in the benchmark problem modeling duct dilation under internal pressure, temperature, and irradiation. These differences are due to the fact that OXBOW dilation models account for both stress relaxation and geometric nonlinearities. Differences in results between OXBOW and the IWGFR benchmark participants are attributed to higher fidelity models generated using OXBOW.