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NEA panel on AI hosted at World Governments Summit
A panel on the potential of artificial intelligence to accelerate small modular reactors was held at the World Governments Summit (WGS) in February in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency cohosted the event, which attracted leaders from developers, IT companies, regulators, and other experts.
José M. Aragonés
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 68 | Number 3 | December 1978 | Pages 281-298
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27306
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A method is developed for calculating effective neutron cross sections in the resolved resonance groups of homogeneous mixtures of cylindrical cells in regular reactor lattices. A rigorous treatment of the nucleonic and neutronic problems provides accurate numerical solutions with detailed dependence in energy and space for both Doppler-broadened cross sections and self-shielded neutron fluxes. The common simplifying approximations are not introduced, so that the method is used as a reference to analyze some of the detailed self-shielding effects that are commonly ignored or approximated in applications ranging from homogeneous mixtures of different resonant nuclides to cylindrical cells with nonuniform temperatures and concentrations within the fuel.