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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
G. C. Pomraning
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 24 | Number 3 | March 1966 | Pages 291-301
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A17641
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The variational method and region-balance method, both special cases of the more general method of weighted residuals, are each used as the formalism to develop a spatial expansion of the diffusion equation for two problems. These are 1)a spatially dependent spectrum problem for the purpose of computing the self-shielding in the 240Pu resonance and 2) a simple one-dimensional eigenvalue problem. In both instances numerical results indicate that the variational method is more accurate than the region-balance method. Of particular interest is the variational spatial-expansion approach to the eigenvalue problem. This may be a useful method for deriving a set of difference equations for the multigroup diffusion equation in that it should lead to an accurate representation of the flux with a relatively small number of mesh points.
