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The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
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First astatine-labeled compound shipped in the U.S.
The Department of Energy’s National Isotope Development Center (NIDC) on March 31 announced the successful long-distance shipment in the United States of a biologically active compound labeled with the medical radioisotope astatine-211 (At-211). Because previous shipments have included only the “bare” isotope, the NIDC has described the development as “unleashing medical innovation.”
Anil K. Prinja, Erin D. Fichtl
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 155 | Number 3 | March 2007 | Pages 441-448
Technical Paper | Mathematics and Computation, Supercomputing, Reactor Physics and Nuclear and Biological Applications | doi.org/10.13182/NSE07-A2675
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An iterative solution of coupled standard model equations arising in electron transport in binary statistical mixtures is considered. Convergence degradation is observed in certain energy groups and is attributed to chunk sizes appearing optically thin in the higher energy groups. Fourier analysis shows that the spectral radius approaches unity for the zero wave-number error mode as the chunk sizes become vanishingly small. It is shown that the atomic mix model accurately approximates transport under these circumstances and moreover provides a suitable low-order approximation to the iteration error. Fourier analysis and numerical implementation confirm that atomic mix acceleration is unconditionally effective for the application considered here. Our computations also demonstrate the inaccuracy of the atomic mix model for electron dose, especially for materials with strongly contrasting physical properties.