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NRC grants Clinton and Dresden license renewals
Three commercial power reactors across two Illinois nuclear power plants—Constellation’s Clinton and Dresden—have had their licenses renewed for 20 more years by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Francis H. Clark
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 27 | Number 2 | February 1967 | Pages 235-239
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-1
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Calculations were set up to determine the effect of the grazing flux on the surface-crossing flux estimator and the pillbox track-length estimator used in Monte Carlo calculations. It was found that grazing particles make only higher order contributions to current or flux but significantly increase the variance. These effects are more pronounced at internal surfaces than at external boundaries. The use of nonstochastic methods to estimate contributions of grazing particles is justified.