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Langtry: Texas and Utah are suing the NRC over SMR regulation
“Texas and Utah that are suing the NRC to try and get regulatory control over small modular reactors.”
Langtry: NRC mandates incident report for 10 unaccounted curies of tritium
“The NRC has this rule that if you can't account for 10 curies of tritium in your system, You have, like, 30 days to report it as an incident to the NRC that you've, like, lost 10 curies of tritium.”
Langtry: Hermeus is opening its hypersonic test facility to the DoD
“And so the Hermia's announcement, I think it was a couple of weeks ago now, was basically they are opening up their test facility to the rest of the DoD because there's a shortage of hypersonics testing.”
Langtry: Standard glowing exit signs contain roughly 25 curies of tritium
“And to give you an idea of how small that is, an exit sign has, like, 25 curies of tritium.”
Langtry: Fusion reactors are regulated like particle accelerators by agreement states
“So right now there was a decision about a year ago that
fusion machines are going to be licensed like particle accelerators and specifically on the radioactive materials they produce.
And so what that does is that pushes the regulator you work with to the s…”
Langtry: US universities operate TRIGA nuclear reactors run by licensed undergrads
“They're all over the country. Oregon State U has one. I've been there, like I stood on top and like looked down at like the fission. Washington State. WSU has one. Yeah. Last question for me. They're called trigger reactors. So they're used basically for nucle…”