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60 Years of U: Perspectives on resources, demand, and the evolving role of nuclear energy
Recent years have seen growing global interest in nuclear energy and rising confidence in the sector. For the first time since the early 2000s, there is renewed optimism about the industry’s future. This change is driven by several major factors: geopolitical developments that highlight the need for secure energy supplies, a stronger focus on resilient energy systems, national commitments to decarbonization, and rising demand for clean and reliable electricity.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 24 | Number 4 | April 1966 | Pages 362-374
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It is shown that the most suitable boundary conditions connecting the moments of the angular flux at the two faces of an annular void surrounding the fuel in a reactor lattice cell are obtained from the consistent use of the transport-theory PN approximation in the void as well as in the other media, when N is not restricted to very low values. A different procedure, which is particularly appropriate in diffusion theory, had been used previously by Newmarch and extended to N = 3 and N = 5 by Tait and Clendenin. However, the algebraic difficulties are considerable, and, although their method is preferable to the systematic use of the PN approxi- mation in all media for the lowest values of N, it is not capable of generalization to higher N. Comparisons of the different approaches are given for the lowest-order approximations; the method based on applying the PN approximation to all regions is given in a form suitable for any odd value of N, and numerical results are presented up to N = 11 to show that it converges rapidly.