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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.
J. C. Luxat, G. M. Frescura
Nuclear Technology | Volume 46 | Number 3 | December 1979 | Pages 507-516
Technical Paper | Nuclear Power Reactor Safety / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32359
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Space-time neutronic behavior of CANDU reactors is of importance in the analysis and design of reactor safety systems. A methodology has been developed for simulating CANDU space-time neu-tronics with application to the analysis of postulated loss-of-coolant accidents. The approach involves the efficient use of a set of computer codes that provides a capability to perform simulations ranging from detailed, accurate three-dimensional space-time to low-cost survey calculations using point kinetics with some “effective” spatial content. A new space-time kinetics code based on a modal expansion approach is described. This code provides an inexpensive and relatively accurate scoping tool for detailed three-dimensional space-time simulations.