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Deep Space: The new frontier of radiation controls
In commercial nuclear power, there has always been a deliberate tension between the regulator and the utility owner. The regulator fundamentally exists to protect the worker, and the utility, to make a profit. It is a win-win balance.
From the U.S. nuclear industry has emerged a brilliantly successful occupational nuclear safety record—largely the result of an ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) process that has driven exposure rates down to what only a decade ago would have been considered unthinkable. In the U.S. nuclear industry, the system has accomplished an excellent, nearly seamless process that succeeds to the benefit of both employee and utility owner.
V. C. Badham, G. C. Pomraning
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 86 | Number 1 | January 1984 | Pages 63-75
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A17970
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A new method for solving the Boltzmann equation is presented and shown to generalize the “classical” spherical harmonics method. This new method utilizes polynomials that are spatially, as well as angularly, dependent and allows for the exact representation of the angular flux under certain conditions. The ideas behind using different truncation procedures as a means of truncating the infinite set of exact spherical harmonics equations to a finite set of approximate equations and allowing this procedure to supply more transport information to these approximate equations are explored. Preliminary results are also presented that show the differences and similarities of these methods as they relate to the exact results.
