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RIC session focuses on interagency collaboration
Attendees at last week’s 2026 Regulatory Information Conference, hosted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, saw extensive discussion of new reactor technologies, uprates, fusion, multiunit deployments, supply chain, and much more.
With the industry in a state of rapid evolution, there was much to discuss. Connected to all these topics was one central theme: the ongoing changes at the NRC. With massively shortened timelines, the ADVANCE Act and Executive Order 14300, and new interagency collaboration and authorization pathways in mind, speakers spent much of the RIC exploring what the road ahead looks like for the NRC.
Yu. Gordienko, Yu. Ponkratov, T. Kulsartov, I. Tazhibayeva, Zh. Zaurbekova, Ye. Koyanbayev, Ye. Chikhray, I. Kenzhina
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 76 | Number 6 | August 2020 | Pages 703-709
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2020.1777667
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This paper describes the facilities of the Institute of Atomic Energy of the National Nuclear Centre of the Republic of Kazakhstan (IAE NNC RK) (Kurchatov, Kazakhstan) designed to conduct studies on the interaction of hydrogen isotopes with materials of nuclear and fusion reactors with and without neutron irradiation. Experiments with sample irradiation are carried out at the LIANA facility, which is located at the IVG.1M reactor. The VIKA and TiGrA installations are designed to conduct experiments with materials before or after irradiation using the temperature-programmed desorption spectroscopy (VIKA), thermogravimetry, and differential scanning calorimetry (TiGrA) methods. The main results of some experimental studies are also presented.