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South Carolina public utility Santee Cooper and its partner South Carolina Electric & Gas (SCE&G) called a halt to the Summer-2 and -3 AP1000 construction project in July 2017, citing costly delays and the bankruptcy of Westinghouse. The well-chronicled legal fallout included indictments and settlements, and ultimately left Santee Cooper with the ownership of nonnuclear assets at the construction site in Jenkinsville, S.C.
W. A. Wassef
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 4 | April 1982 | Pages 714-720
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A18981
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The factorized kernel technique for solving neutron transport problems with arbitrary anisotropic scattering is studied and developed numerically. A new derivation that is simple and straightforward is given for the factorization formulas. One-dimensional slab and two-dimensional infinite parallelepiped problems are studied, and extensive results with several useful comparisons are given. Nonclassical Gaussian quadrature rules are constructed with higher order and precision. Different criteria are given to check these rules and calculate the absolute relative error. Several possible applications and extensions are proposed, and the advantages of this approach are demonstrated.