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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.
Takanobu Kamei, Tadashi Yoshida, Toshikazu Takeda, Takuya Umano
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 91 | Number 1 | September 1985 | Pages 11-33
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE85-A17126
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The prediction accuracy of the burnup characteristics of large liquid-metal fast breeder reactors (LMFBRs) is very hard to evaluate because of the unavailability of the direct experimental information. A quantitative evaluation was performed on the accuracy of the burnup property by use of the sensitivity coefficients in a large LMFBR and the covariance matrix of nuclear data. Also evaluated was the decrease in prediction error when the cross-section set was adjusted by the use of experimental data, such as criticality, reaction rate ratios, and others. It was concluded that accuracy with the direct use of current nuclear data is ±30% for burnup reactivity loss and ±5% for breeding ratio. On the other hand, the accuracy would be improved to ±18% and ±2.5% by utilizing the experimental data obtained on the zero-power plutonium reactor assembly.