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Panelists discuss U.S. path to criticality in ANS webinar
The American Nuclear Society recently hosted a panel discussion featuring prominent figures from the nuclear sector who discussed the industry’s ongoing push for criticality.
Yasir Arafat, chief technical officer of Aalo Atomics; Jordan Bramble, CEO of Antares Nuclear; and Rita Baranwal, chief nuclear officer of Radiant Industries, participated in the discussion and covered their recent progress in the Department of Energy’s Reactor Pilot Program. Nader Satvat, director of nuclear systems design at Kairos Power, gave an update on the company’s ongoing demonstration projects taking place outside of the landscape of DOE authorization.
Herbert A. Steinberg, Malvin H. Kalos
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 44 | Number 3 | June 1971 | Pages 406-412
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A20171
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Methods are given for obtaining bounded estimators for radiation flux at a point detector in a Monte Carlo calculation. In essence, the procedure is to so bias the collision density in the neighborhood of the detector that the usually singular last-flight estimator gives bounded results. The change with respect to usual Monte Carlo procedures is “local” in that only collisions within a fixed neighborhood of the detector are affected. A reselection procedure is used to implement the local requirement.