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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.
Ashok Kumar, N. K. Saxena, L. S. Kothari
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 1977 | Pages 24-30
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27000
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Propagation of neutron waves across a temperature discontinuity in an infinite graphite assembly is investigated using a two-group approach. The first slab is assumed to be of finite width and the second is taken to be infinite. It is seen that the presence of the second medium is felt in the first medium at a larger distance from the interface for waves of smaller frequencies. In the second medium, equilibrium is established at a distance that depends on the frequency of the wave. It increases with the approach of critical frequency, becomes very large for frequencies greater than the critical frequency, and decreases with further increase in the frequency.