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IEA report: Challenges need to be resolved to support global nuclear energy growth
The International Energy Agency published a new report this month outlining how continued innovation, government support, and new business models can unleash nuclear power expansion worldwide.
The Path to a New Era for Nuclear Energy report “reviews the status of nuclear energy around the world and explores risks related to policies, construction, and financing.”
Find the full report at IEA.org.
John P. Church
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 21 | Number 1 | January 1965 | Pages 49-61
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A21015
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The integral neutron-transport equation is solved for the space-dependent mono-energetic neutron density in a unit cell. By using step functions to represent the spatial dependence of the collision probabilities, one may rearrange the integro-differential transport equation in a special way such that the left-hand side contains only the leakage term and the term describing the total collision probability for the homogeneous medium of one region, k′, of the original problem. The Green's-function technique is then used to convert the integro-differential equation to an integral equation. Thus, although the resulting equation may be applied to a heterogeneous cell, the kernel of the equation depends only on the total collision probability in the particular region k′. Numerical results are presented for a two-region unit cell in slab geometry and compared with published results of DSN, PN double-PN and variational calculations. For unit cells that are of the order of two mean free paths or less in thickness, the zeroth-order spherical harmonic approximation for this method yields results comparable to very high order DSN, PN and double-PN calculations. Further, once the Green's function has been computed, additional cell calculations can be performed with relatively little additional computational effort.