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NRC proposed rule for licensing reactors authorized by DOE, DOD
Nuclear reactor designs approved by the Department of Energy or Department of Defense could get streamlined pathways through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s commercial licensing process should applicants wish to push the technology into the civilian sector.
A proposed rule introduced April 2 by the NRC would “improve NRC licensing review efficiency, where applicable, by explicitly establishing by regulation an additional means for reactor applicants to demonstrate the safety functions of their reactor designs, and thus, would contribute to the safe and secure use and deployment of civilian nuclear energy technologies.”
E. D. Hughes, K. R. Katsma, M. P. Paulsen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 70 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 30-41
Technical Paper | Third International Retran Meeting / Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33661
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Results of additional improvements to the numerical solution methods used in RETRAN are presented. The new solution methods remove time-step size limitations associated with the four- and five-equation two-phase models in RETRAN. The four-equation, dynamic slip model is solved by a noniterative method that requires only one evaluation of a single matrix per time step. The five-equation, nonequilibrium model is solved by a two-step method. Calculations show that much larger time steps can be used with the new methods as compared with the standard methods.