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DOE on track to deliver high-burnup SNF to Idaho by 2027
The Department of Energy said it anticipated delivering a research cask of high-burnup spent nuclear fuel from Dominion Energy’s North Anna nuclear power plant in Virginia to Idaho National Laboratory by fall 2027. The planned shipment is part of the High Burnup Dry Storage Research Project being conducted by the DOE with the Electric Power Research Institute.
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Raphael Aronson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 86 | Number 2 | February 1984 | Pages 136-149
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-136
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The results of high-order PN calculations for the one-speed albedo and Milne problems in spherical geometry are presented. The computations were performed by the transfer matrix approach. The analysis is included in the paper. Reflection probabilities are given for spheres of various radii and for the region exterior to spheres: reflection and transmission probabilities for spherical shells and extrapolation lengths for the exterior Milne problem. The method is found to diverge for sufficiently high values of N—the smaller the radius, the more rapidly divergence sets in. For moderate and large radii (≳2 mfp), the method nevertheless gives generally excellent results.