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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.”
Ivan Petrovic, Pierre Benoist, Guy Marleau
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 122 | Number 2 | February 1996 | Pages 151-166
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A24152
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The influence of assembly or cell heterogeneity on neutron leakage has been consistently taken into account in the TIBERE simplified heterogeneous B1 model. The assumption adopted within the TIBERE model that neutrons are specularly reflected on the boundary introduces two problems. Calculations with this model may become rather time consuming and even unnecessarily long in the case of a Canada deuterium uranium reactor cell, and the peripheral or total coolant voiding of a pressurized water reactor assembly leads to infinite leakage coefficients. These problems have been overcome by the development of another simplified heterogeneous B1 leakage model, TIBERE-2, which has quasi-isotropic reflecting boundary conditions. The TIBERE-2 model uses similar approximations as the TIBERE model and yields an iterative scheme to simultaneously compute multigroup scalar fluxes and directional currents in a heterogeneous geometry. These values enable the evaluation of directional space-dependent leakage coefficients. This new model requires the classical and directional escape and transmission probabilities in addition to the classical and directional first-flight collision probabilities calculated for an open assembly. The TIBERE-2 model has been introduced for general two-dimensional geometry into the DRAGON multigroup transport code. The numerical results obtained by DRAGON show that the TIBERE-2 model represents leakages much better than the homogeneous B1 leakage model. Moreover, the TIBERE-2 model yields results that are extremely close to those obtained by the TIBERE model with considerably shorter computing times.