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U.K.’s NWS gets input from young people on geological disposal
Nuclear Waste Services, the radioactive waste management subsidiary of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, has reported on its inaugural year of the National Youth Forum on Geological Disposal forum. NWS set up the initiative, in partnership with the environmental consultancy firm ARUP and the not-for-profit organization The Young Foundation, to give young people the chance to share their views on the government’s plans to develop a geological disposal facility (GDF) for the safe, secure, and long-term disposal of radioactive waste.
D. C. Wade, R. G. Bucher
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 64 | Number 2 | October 1977 | Pages 517-538
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27387
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Flux weighting for the generation of broad-group cross sections is designed to preserve eigenvalue, flux spectrum, and reaction rates; however, it will not preserve adjoint spectrum and reactivity worths. Bilinear (flux-adjoint) weighting preserves all of the above quantities except reaction rates. Bilinear weighting also makes the eigenvalue of the broad-group calculation less sensitive to distortions of the spectrum away from the fundamental mode over which the cross sections were collapsed than is the case when flux weighting is used. A series of 29- and 11-group numerical tests has been made to assess the size of errors (relative to a fine-group standard) in eigenvalue, reaction rate ratios, isotopic worth components, and spectral shapes resulting from the use of the two energy collapse procedures. The errors in adjoint spectrum and calculated worth of scattering materials are found to be large when flux weighting is used.