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Tag: licensing basis

Technical Requirements Manual

The NRC made some rule changes in the mid-1990’s that simplified a critical component of a nuclear power plant’s licensing basis. This reduced the…

Licensing Basis

Redundancy and Diversity

Here are two basic concepts that should be understood by every electrical engineer in the nuclear power industry: redundancy and diversity. They are closely…

Design Basis