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September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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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.
D. J. Bender
Nuclear Technology | Volume 44 | Number 3 | August 1979 | Pages 381-389
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32273
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A fusion-fission power system is considered in which fissile-producing hybrid (or fusion-fission) reactors supply the makeup fuel needs for fissile-consuming, or converter, reactors. As a result of the diverse nature of the hybrid reactor, a number of general performance parameters are proposed that will permit comparison of various hybrid reactor configurations. In addition, the relationships developed are used to show that scientific feasibility or “breakeven” for the hybrid reactor is near at hand in the fusion program and that attractive commercial reactors can be based on near-term plasma physics.