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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.
C. E. Bemis, Jr., J. H. Oliver, R. Eby, J. Halperin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 63 | Number 4 | August 1977 | Pages 413-417
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27058
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The thermal-neutron capture cross section and capture resonance integral for 243Cm have been measured in cobalt-monitored reactor irradiations of nearly isotopically pure 243Cm (99.94%) using cadmium filter techniques. The thermal-neutron absorption (capture plus fission) cross section and corresponding resonance integral for 243Cm have also been measured in a separate experiment relative to 248Cm. Values of σ2200(n, γ) = 130.7 ± 9.6, σ2200(n, f) = 609.6 ± 25.9, I(n, γ) = 214.7 ± 20.3, and I(n, f) = 1575 ± 136 b are reported.
