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NRC adopts ROP updates
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved a significant overhaul of its Reactor Oversight Process (ROP) baseline inspection program that stresses a leaner, more risk-focused inspection process.
This adoption comes just over a month after NRC officials published their findings on the proposed ROP changes. The changes would reduce the number of hours spent annually on direct inspections at U.S. nuclear power plants by 38 percent.
Qingzi Zhu (Purdue Univ), Joshua P. Schlegel (Missouri Univ Sci Tech), Xiaohong Yang (Purdue Univ), Yang Liu (Virginia Tech), John R. Buchanan (Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corp.), Mamoru Ishii (Purdue Univ)
Transactions | Volume 115 | Number 1 | November 2016 | Pages 1503-1506
