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Senate committee hears from energy secretary nominee Chris Wright
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Chris Wright, president-elect Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Department of Energy, spent hours today fielding questions from members of the U.S. Senate’s committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
During the hearing, Wright—who’s spent most of his career in fossil fuels—made comments in support of nuclear energy and efforts to expand domestic generation in the near future. Asked what actions he would take as energy secretary to improve the development and deployment of SMRs, Wright said: “It’s a big challenge, and I’m new to government, so I can’t list off the five levers I can pull. But (I’ve been in discussions) about how to make it easier to research, to invest, to build things. The DOE has land at some of its facilities that can be helpful in this regard.”
R. Borsari, R. Fioresi, T. Trombetti
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 112 | Number 4 | December 1992 | Pages 301-320
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE92-2
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The use of piecewise constant functions (PCFs) in two-angle linear transport theory to represent the scattering cross sections σ(v), v ∈ [-1,1], and the angular scattering source density S(), ≡ (μ, φ) ∈ on a partition (SN or finite element discretization, for example) of the unit sphere of directions is considered. Average oriented transition cross sections σtn (±,B',B) describe scattering from ≡ (, )∈ B’ ⊂ to ≡ (μ,φ)∈ B ⊂ with the constraint 0< ±(φ - φ') <π. Unit steps σ(v) = H(v —γ) and σ(v) = δ(v — γ) are pretreated on an “intrinsic” γ grid for the chosen partition. All σtn(±,B',B) are derived by interpolation. The invariance properties of the σtn’s and the permitted B'→B transition (σtn > 0) are identified. Then, the PCF representation of S() is obtained with a minimum of work. Angular rebalancing restores the correct zeroth- and first-order angular moments without losing the nonnegativity of σtn and S. The preferential domains of application of this PCF method and the classical spherical harmonics method (which may violate nonnegativity) are discussed.