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60 Years of U: Perspectives on resources, demand, and the evolving role of nuclear energy
Recent years have seen growing global interest in nuclear energy and rising confidence in the sector. For the first time since the early 2000s, there is renewed optimism about the industry’s future. This change is driven by several major factors: geopolitical developments that highlight the need for secure energy supplies, a stronger focus on resilient energy systems, national commitments to decarbonization, and rising demand for clean and reliable electricity.
Jim E. Morel, Anil Prinja, John M. McGhee, Todd A. Wareing, Brian C. Franke
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 156 | Number 2 | June 2007 | Pages 154-163
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE07-A2693
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A new Sn discretization of the angular Fokker-Planck operator used in three-dimensional calculations is derived for product quadrature sets. It is straightforward to define discretizations that preserve the null space and zeroth angular moment of the analytic operator and are self-adjoint, monotone, and nonpositive-definite. Our new discretization differs from more straightforward discretizations in that it also preserves the three first angular moments of the analytic operator when applied in conjunction with product quadrature sets constructed with Chebychev azimuthal quadrature. Otherwise, it preserves only two of the three first angular moments. Computational results are presented that demonstrate the superiority of this new discretization relative to a straightforward discretization. Two-dimensional versions of the new discretization are also given for x-y and r-z geometries.