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Westinghouse submits AP1000 design revision to NRC
Yesterday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it has received an application from Westinghouse to renew and update the design certification (DC) for its AP1000 reactor. This application seeks to formally incorporate the lessons learned from the construction of Vogtle-3 and -4 into the design control document (DCD) of the AP1000.
This long-expected submittal builds on previous plans at both the NRC and Westinghouse for the future of gigawatt-scale light water reactor deployments in the United States.
R. E. Maerker, F. J. Muckenthaler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 26 | Number 3 | November 1966 | Pages 339-346
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A17354
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Single-velocity Monte Carlo calculations and measurements have been performed to determine the differential angular thermal-neutron albedos for a reinforced concrete for monodirectional beams of incident thermal neutrons. Preliminary calculations using a statistical estimation technique indicate up to 50 scatterings should be followed for each neutron to produce good estimates of the differential albedos, and up to 100 scatterings to produce good estimates of the capture gamma-ray differential dose albedos. Deviation between experiment and calculation can be reduced to an average of 5.1% for 72 points of comparison if an anisotropic scattering law for water deduced from earlier Argonne National Laboratory measurements is assumed.