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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.
Toshihide Takai, Tomohiro Furukawa, Hidemasa Yamano (JAEA)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 1007-1013
This paper describes estimation results of thermophysical properties of stainless steel (SS) containing 5mass% boron carbide (B4C) in the solid phase. First, we synthesized SS-B4C samples with emphasis on 5 mass%-B4C and SS using a hot press method. Homogeneity of our produced SS-B4C sample was evaluated by chemical composition analysis, metal structure observation, and micro X-ray diffraction (XRD). Both the density and specific heat of the SS-B4C sample were evaluated. These measurements proved that the density in our sample was lowered and the temperature dependence of the density, along with the elevation of temperature, became gradual compared to that of grade type 316L stainless steel (SUS316L) used as a reactor material by addition of B4C. The specific heat became slightly higher than that of SUS316L by addition of B4C and showed similar temperature dependence up to 800°C.