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Members focus on the dissemination of knowledge and information in the area of power reactors with particular application to the production of electric power and process heat. The division sponsors meetings on the coverage of applied nuclear science and engineering as related to power plants, non-power reactors, and other nuclear facilities. It encourages and assists with the dissemination of knowledge pertinent to the safe and efficient operation of nuclear facilities through professional staff development, information exchange, and supporting the generation of viable solutions to current issues.
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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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South Carolina public utility Santee Cooper and its partner South Carolina Electric & Gas (SCE&G) called a halt to the Summer-2 and -3 AP1000 construction project in July 2017, citing costly delays and the bankruptcy of Westinghouse. The well-chronicled legal fallout included indictments and settlements, and ultimately left Santee Cooper with the ownership of nonnuclear assets at the construction site in Jenkinsville, S.C.
S. R. Dwivedi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 172-178
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21413
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Neutron or radiation transport kernels in general have two factors, namely, the space transition part and the energy-angle transition part. Importance biasing schemes are obtained here for these two factors separately leading to zero variance estimation by Monte Carlo. These biasing schemes are different from the one obtained by straightforward extension of importance biasing of the transport kernel. New biasing schemes are obtained for collision, track-length, and expectation estimators. Using the moments equations developed by Amster and Djomehri and extended by Lux to treat nonanalog games it is shown that these new biasing schemes lead to zero variance in the Monte Carlo estimation of reaction rate type of quantities.