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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.
Martin LeimdÖRfer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 17 | Number 3 | November 1963 | Pages 345-351
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A17381
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Monte Carlo calculations have been performed for source energies from 1 to 10 Mev, and normally incident radiation, showing that 90% of the infinite-barrier energy flux albedo is reached with a 10 cm concrete wall. The spectrum of backscattered energy flux is presented for the above sources and wall thicknesses ranging from 5 to 50 cm. An analytical expression, based on a single-scattering approximation, is shown to produce good fits to the Monte Carlo results.