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60 Years of U: Perspectives on resources, demand, and the evolving role of nuclear energy
Recent years have seen growing global interest in nuclear energy and rising confidence in the sector. For the first time since the early 2000s, there is renewed optimism about the industry’s future. This change is driven by several major factors: geopolitical developments that highlight the need for secure energy supplies, a stronger focus on resilient energy systems, national commitments to decarbonization, and rising demand for clean and reliable electricity.
P. E. McGrath, W. K. Foell
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 45 | Number 3 | September 1971 | Pages 237-244
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A19076
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A new collision probability formulation of integral transport theory is applied in the analysis of small-sample reactivity measurements. The calculational technique features a blending of diffusion theory, used to represent the unperturbed reactor, and integral transport theory, used to represent the sample and that portion of the reactor significantly perturbed by the sample. The theory forms the basis for a perturbation theory computer program, COPERT, which, in conjunction with the one-dimensional diffusion theory program MACH-1, has been applied to the analysis of central reactivity measurements in the ZPR-3 fast critical assembly. The method provides a convenient means of accounting for sample-size effects.