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NRC shares details on proposed rules to streamline hearing timelines
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s adjudicatory hearings have not received any significant reforms since 2004. In fact, according to NRC staff, these Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) hearings have only undergone major reform three times in the board’s history.
That would change under a proposed rule that was issued earlier this month. At a March 19 virtual meeting, NRC staff provided more details on the proposed changes.
N. Tralli, J. Agresta
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 10 | Number 2 | June 1961 | Pages 132-141
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A25949
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The spherical harmonic (P3) approximation to the Boltzmann equation is applied to the case of a finite cylinder, with symmetry about the axis of the cylinder. Solutions are obtained for the case of a neutron source proportional to cos Bzz where z is measured along the axis of the cylinder and Bz2 is the axial buckling. These solutions are then expanded in terms of Bz and only terms of order Bz2 or less are retained. The approximate solutions are then used to calculate the thermal utilization of a cell of finite height composed of a natural uranium rod surrounded by a D2O moderator as a function of the axial buckling. The resultant expression for the utilization has the form where f(0) is the utilization of the cell of infinite height and the constant L2 corresponds to the thermal diffusion area in two-group theory. Results are obtained for several cells and compared with those obtained using other calculational methods.
