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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.
D. P. Griggs, T. J. Honan
Nuclear Technology | Volume 54 | Number 3 | September 1981 | Pages 398-409
First International Retran Meeting | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT81-A32786
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Northeast Utilities Service Company has performed sensitivity studies useful for modeling a loss of feedwater transient using the RETRAN code. These studies modeled the Connecticut Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, a four-loop Westinghouse pressurized water reactor. One-, two-, and three-volume steam generator secondary models were used in conjunction with a common primary side nodalization in a two-loop model. The importance of flow area of the steam generator secondary side for this transient has been investigated. A comparison of one-and two-loop models was made, along with an assessment of the differences in response between the equilibrium and nonequilibrium pressurizer models.