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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.
G. C. Pomraning, Anil K. Prinja
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 131 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 116-122
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE99-A2022
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Two different numerical procedures are suggested for evaluating a previous analytic result for the scalar flux for the pencil beam problem with screened Rutherford scattering. The first of these is an asymptotic evaluation of a divergent integral, and the second is based upon an asymptotic expansion method due to Molière. Both are relatively simple algorithms, and comparisons with each other and with benchmark Monte Carlo results are given to establish the accuracy of each.
