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In commercial nuclear power, there has always been a deliberate tension between the regulator and the utility owner. The regulator fundamentally exists to protect the worker, and the utility, to make a profit. It is a win-win balance.
From the U.S. nuclear industry has emerged a brilliantly successful occupational nuclear safety record—largely the result of an ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) process that has driven exposure rates down to what only a decade ago would have been considered unthinkable. In the U.S. nuclear industry, the system has accomplished an excellent, nearly seamless process that succeeds to the benefit of both employee and utility owner.
Chester D. Kylstra
Nuclear Technology | Volume 22 | Number 2 | May 1974 | Pages 191-195
Technical Paper | Ocean—Nuclear Energy | doi.org/10.13182/NT74-A31402
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A preliminary evaluation of the use of natural convection cooling to remove waste heat from offshore nuclear power plants is presented. This approach would minimize the environmental problems of thermal and mechanical shock and excessive temperatures associated with once-through cooling. The results indicate that approximately six times the length of condensate tubing used in a conventional condenser would be needed for natural convection cooling; a more complicated steam-handling system would also be required. The concept could only be justified if a power plant is needed at a particular site where the environmental cost of the conventional system exceeded the cost of natural convection cooling.
