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PR: American Nuclear Society welcomes Senate confirmation of Ted Garrish as the DOE’s nuclear energy secretary
Washington, D.C. — The American Nuclear Society (ANS) applauds the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Theodore “Ted” Garrish as Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
“On behalf of over 11,000 professionals in the fields of nuclear science and technology, the American Nuclear Society congratulates Mr. Garrish on being confirmed by the Senate to once again lead the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy,” said ANS President H.M. "Hash" Hashemian.
J. Barclay Andrews, II, K. F. Hansen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 31 | Number 2 | February 1968 | Pages 304-313
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A18242
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A numerical method for the solution of the time-dependent multigroup diffusion equations is presented. The method has the property that it is numerically unconditionally stable for all changes in reactor properties and all integration time-step sizes. The method assumes that the neutron flux and precursor concentration can be expressed as an exponential function over each time step. As a result of this assumption, and the factoring of the matrix form of the multigroup equations, it is shown that for the case of a constant step change in the properties of the system the asymptotic numerical eigensolution is proportional to the asymptotic eigensolution of the differential equations. An analysis of the truncation error associated with the method is also presented. Finally, a number of numerical experiments are presented which illustrate the accuracy, speed, and general utility of the method.