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IEA report: Challenges need to be resolved to support global nuclear energy growth
The International Energy Agency published a new report this month outlining how continued innovation, government support, and new business models can unleash nuclear power expansion worldwide.
The Path to a New Era for Nuclear Energy report “reviews the status of nuclear energy around the world and explores risks related to policies, construction, and financing.”
Find the full report at IEA.org.
M. M. R. Williams
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 30 | Number 2 | November 1967 | Pages 188-198
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A17330
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A formalism based upon the source-sink method of Horning, Feinberg, and Galanin has been developed which predicts the neutron noise spectrum, and time-dependent correlation function, in heterogeneous reactor systems. The method is applied to two problems in infinite plane geometry: the infinite lattice, and detector perturbations. In the lattice problem, it is shown that the simple, homogeneous theory will only be valid when the lattice spacing is very much less than the attenuation length of a neutron wave in the pure moderator. The flux depression in the neighborhood of a neutron detector is found to introduce significant corrections to the noise spectrum.