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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.
T. E. Dudley, P. B. Daitch
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 25 | Number 1 | May 1966 | Pages 75-84
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A17503
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The monoenergetic transport equation is solved in the P3 approximation for a cylindrical rod in a square cell. Reflecting boundary conditions applied on the boundary of the cell represent exactly the geometry of cylindrical rods in an infinite square-lattice array. By comparison with Monte Carlo calculations, the P3 calculations appear to approach the exact transport solution at about the same rate in two dimensions as in one dimension. For the cases investigated, the scalar flux in the central absorbing rod is rather independent of the angular position. This appears to be the reason for the success of the Wigner-Seitz equivalent cylindrical cell, with various outer boundary conditions, in predicting flux disadvantage factors. Flux traverses in the square cell and in the Wigner-Seitz equivalent cylindrical cell are also illustrated.
