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November 8–12, 2025
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FPoliSolutions demonstrates RISE, an RIPB systems engineering tool
The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) has held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series. Former RP3C chair N. Prasad Kadambi opened the October 3 meeting with brief introductory remarks about the RP3C and the need for new approaches to nuclear design that go beyond conventional and deterministic methods. He then welcomed this month’s speakers: Mike Mankosa, a project engineer at FPoliSolutions, and Cesare Frepoli, the company’s president, who together presented “Introduction to RISE: A Digital Framework for Maintaining a Risk-Informed Safety Case for Current and Next Generation Nuclear Power Plants.”
Watch the full webinar here.
D. Shalitin, J. J. Wagschal, Y. Yeivin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 68 | Number 3 | December 1978 | Pages 243-248
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27303
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Conditions for the reduction of the time-independent neutron transport equation to an energy-independent (one-group) equation are discussed. It is shown that a meaningful reduction is equivalent to angular flux separability into a product of an energy spectrum and a spatial and angular function. It is proven that such a separability in a finite system is possible if and only if the total cross section is energy independent, provided some auxiliary conditions are met. The physical situations in which these conditions are satisfied and the similarity to the so-called first fundamental theorem of reactor theory are discussed.
