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The last days of Hallam
The Hallam nuclear power plant, about 25 miles southwest of Lincoln, Neb., was an important part of the Atomic Energy Commission’s Reactor Power Demonstration Program. But in the end, it operated for only 6,271 hours and generated about 192.5 million kilowatt-hours of electric power during its short, 15-month life.
Michael J. Antal, Clarence E. Lee
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 64 | Number 2 | October 1977 | Pages 379-383
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27378
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The transport equation governing the deposition of energy carried by fast charged particles in a thermonuclear plasma is derived and solved using a new discrete-ordinates method. This method is shown to be superior to a diffusion theory approximation. Excellent agreement with analytic results for a number of representative test problems has been obtained.
