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U.K.’s NWS gets input from young people on geological disposal
Nuclear Waste Services, the radioactive waste management subsidiary of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, has reported on its inaugural year of the National Youth Forum on Geological Disposal forum. NWS set up the initiative, in partnership with the environmental consultancy firm ARUP and the not-for-profit organization The Young Foundation, to give young people the chance to share their views on the government’s plans to develop a geological disposal facility (GDF) for the safe, secure, and long-term disposal of radioactive waste.
K. D. Lathrop, N. S. Demuth
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 32 | Number 1 | April 1968 | Pages 120-130
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A18831
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A new system of biorthogonal polynomials is developed for the angular expansion of the directional flux in the linear Boltzmann transport equation. It is shown in systems infinite in one space dimension that the angular integral in the Boltzmann equation can be reduced to a weighted integral over the unit circle. The corresponding system of orthogonal functions is found to be a system of two sets of polynomials in two variables. Recursion relations and an addition theorem are derived for these polynomials. The angular dependence of the particle flux is expanded in each set of these polynomials. Systems of partial differential equations are derived for the expansion coefficients, that is, for angular moments of the particle flux. One of these systems is shown to be a specific linear combination of the equations obtained when the directional flux is expanded in spherical harmonics functions specialized for the geometry considered. It is shown that this same system, in (x, y) geometry, reduces simply to the spherical harmonics equations in one-dimensional plane geometry.