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NRC proposed rule for licensing reactors authorized by DOE, DOD
Nuclear reactor designs approved by the Department of Energy or Department of Defense could get streamlined pathways through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s commercial licensing process should applicants wish to push the technology into the civilian sector.
A proposed rule introduced April 2 by the NRC would “improve NRC licensing review efficiency, where applicable, by explicitly establishing by regulation an additional means for reactor applicants to demonstrate the safety functions of their reactor designs, and thus, would contribute to the safe and secure use and deployment of civilian nuclear energy technologies.”
Ricardo C. De Barros, Edward W. Larsen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 104 | Number 3 | March 1990 | Pages 199-208
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A23719
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A numerical method that is free from all spatial truncation errors is developed for one-group slab-geometry discrete ordinates problems. The unknowns in the method are the cell-edge and cell-average angular fluxes, and the numerical values obtained for these quantities are those of the analytic solution of the discrete ordinates equations. The method is based on the use of the standard balance equation, which holds in each spatial cell and for each discrete ordinates direction, and a nonstandard auxiliary equation that contains a Green’s function for the cell-average angular flux in terms of the incident angular fluxes on the cell edges and the interior source. Numerical results are given to illustrate the method’s accuracy.