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September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Deep Space: The new frontier of radiation controls
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.
D. Ginestar, G. Verdú, J. March-Leuba
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 140 | Number 2 | February 2002 | Pages 172-180
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE02-A2253
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There is currently much interest in developing new codes and improving the existing ones to be able to predict instabilities of nuclear power reactors. Stability calculations are very sensitive to the models used for the reactor and the numerical methods used to integrate them. To clarify this dependence, a simplified thermohydraulic model has been proposed, and several numerical schemes have been used to integrate the model. A numerical example has been analyzed showing that the behavior of the solution depends mainly on the spatial discretization used.
