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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.
Young Soo Park (ANL), Venugopal Varma (ORNL), Edward Colgate (Northwestern Univ.), Sabri Cetin (Univ. Ilinois, Chicago), Anamary Daniel (Inspection Expert), Wendell Chun (Univ. Denver), Boaz Buechley (United Cleanup Oak Ridge), John Lee (Dept. of Energy)
Transactions | Volume 128 | Number 1 | June 2023 | Pages 884-887
