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DOE-EM awards $37.5M to Vanderbilt University for nuclear cleanup support
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced on January 16 that it has awarded a noncompetitive financial assistance agreement worth $37.5 million to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., to aid the department’s mission of cleaning up legacy nuclear waste.
Melvin Tobias, T. B. Fowler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 12 | Number 4 | April 1962 | Pages 513-518
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A26099
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An extremely simple iterative procedure is described for performing group-diffusion calculations in two and three dimensions No proofs have been found to guarantee its convergence, but successful experience with a wide variety of problems, some realistic, others with specially introduced difficulties, shows the method to be rapid and reliable. Three large computer programs have been devised embodying the principle: EQUIPOISE-3, TWENTY GRAND, and WHIRLAWAY. The first two are two-dimensional programs, while the third is three-dimensional. If desired, the programs can be used to compute adjoint fluxes and those integrals necessary for perturbation calculations automatically. Possible further applications of the method are suggested.