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Radiation Protection & Shielding
The Radiation Protection and Shielding Division is developing and promoting radiation protection and shielding aspects of nuclear science and technology — including interaction of nuclear radiation with materials and biological systems, instruments and techniques for the measurement of nuclear radiation fields, and radiation shield design and evaluation.
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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Oklo completes end-to-end demonstration of advanced fuel recycling
Oklo Inc. has announced that it has completed the first end-to-end demonstration of its advanced fuel recycling process as part of an ongoing $5 million project in collaboration with Argonne and Idaho National Laboratories. Oklo’s goal: scaling up its fuel recycling capabilities to deploy a commercial-scale recycling facility that would increase advanced reactor fuel supplies and enhance fuel cost effectiveness for its planned sodium fast reactors.
Renée M. Dubord, Michael W. Golay, Norman C. Rasmussen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 114 | Number 2 | May 1996 | Pages 169-178
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT96-A35247
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Maintenance and inspection costs at nuclear power plants consume a large portion of a utility’s resources. The stresses of commercial competition make better resource allocation for such procedures vital. A nuclear power plant’s probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) is an excellent source of information about the safety importance of various plant systems, structures, and components. As both the nuclear power industry and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission begin to focus attention on the use of performance-based regulation, it is important to find how best to put a nuclear power plant’s PRA to work in prioritizing maintenance and inspection resources. In light of these concerns, two ratios were developed to compare the risk significance of individual components to the amount of plant staff time, or burden, associated with inspecting the component. These risk-to-burden ratios point out existing disparities between inspection practices and safety concerns. These ratios can be used to develop new inspection schedules constituting a more equitable risk-to-burden distribution.