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RP3C Community of Practice’s fifth anniversary
In February, the Community of Practice (CoP) webinar series, hosted by the American Nuclear Society Standards Board’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policies Committee (RP3C), celebrated its fifth anniversary. Like so many online events, these CoPs brought people together at a time when interacting with others became challenging in early 2020. Since the kickoff CoP, which highlighted the impact that systems engineering has on the design of NuScale’s small modular reactor, the last Friday of most months has featured a new speaker leading a discussion on the use of risk-informed, performance-based (RIPB) thinking in the nuclear industry. Providing a venue to convene for people within ANS and those who found their way online by another route, CoPs are an opportunity for the community to receive answers to their burning questions about the subject at hand. With 50–100 active online participants most months, the conversation is always lively, and knowledge flows freely.
Norberto Piccinini, Rodolfo Simonetto, Giovanni Del Tin
Nuclear Technology | Volume 57 | Number 2 | May 1982 | Pages 243-254
Technical Paper | Radioisotopes and Isotope | doi.org/10.13182/NT82-A26287
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
An assessment is made of the feasibility of employing spent nuclear fuel elements as a gamma source for the sterilization of sludges generated by industrial and municipal waste-water biological treatment plants. The ORIGEN code is used to determine the strength time pattern of the gamma radiation from the fuel elements of a pressurized water reactor power station with two 1000-MW(electric) reactors when placed in its storage pool Some solutions are suggested for the use of such pools as ponds for the radiotreatment of sludges. Preliminary results show that sufficiently high doses of gamma radiation for the treatment of significantly large quantities of sludge can be obtained. The induced activity is within limits comparable to or less than those occurring naturally in currently used substances.
