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2025 annual assessments out for U.S. reactors
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has released its 2025 annual performance assessments of the country’s 95 operating commercial nuclear reactors. And of the 95 reactors, all but five earned the highest marks.
Nuclear power plant assessments can fall under one of five categories: Licensee Response, Regulatory Response, Degraded Cornerstone, Degraded Performance, and Unacceptable Performance. Ninety reactors fell under Licensee Response, the highest performance category in safety and security. Plants that achieve this level of performance are subject to a Reactor Oversight Process (ROP) baseline inspection.
C. Eisenhauer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 32 | Number 2 | May 1968 | Pages 166-177
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A19729
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Calculations are made of the radiation flux of gamma rays that have originated from a point isotropic source and have been singly scattered in the air lying beyond a plane interface. Calculations are made in the limit that the source-detector separation distance is small compared to a mean-free-path in air. These results are interpreted in terms of an image source. The results, combined with earlier calculations of the radiation flux reflected from a condensed medium, such as ground, predict the effect of the ground-air interface on radiation fluxes in air near the interface. The results are extrapolated to source-detector separation of the order of a mean-free-path by using infinite-medium buildup factors. Comparisons with experiment show that the model produces results that are in qualitative agreement with experiment.