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NRC begins special inspection at Hope Creek
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is conducting a special inspection at Hope Creek nuclear plant in New Jersey to investigate the cause of repeated inoperability of one of the plant’s emergency diesel generators, the agency announced in a February 25 news release.
Y. Y. Azmy, Edward W. Larsen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 95 | Number 2 | February 1987 | Pages 106-115
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE87-A20421
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The diffusion synthetic acceleration method is developed for arbitrary weighted diamond-differencing schemes in general rectangular-mesh Cartesian geometry problems and is Fourier analyzed to determine its stability and convergence properties. The spectral radius is computed to be ∼0.25 for all meshes, angular quadrature sets, and spatial weights, for one-, two-, and three-dimensional problems.
