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NRC looks to leverage previous approvals for large LWRs
During this time of resurging interest in nuclear power, many conversations have centered on one fundamental problem: Electricity is needed now, but nuclear projects (in recent decades) have taken many years to get permitted and built.
In the past few years, a bevy of new strategies have been pursued to fix this problem. Workforce programs that seek to laterally transition skilled people from other industries, plans to reuse the transmission infrastructure at shuttered coal sites, efforts to restart plants like Palisades or Duane Arnold, new reactor designs that build on the legacy of research done in the early days of atomic power—all of these plans share a common throughline: leveraging work already done instead of starting over from square one to get new plants designed and built.
P. H. Kier
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 26 | Number 2 | October 1966 | Pages 230-236
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A28165
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A method of calculating resonance absorption in a rod in a two-region circularized cell is developed. The method uses space-and lethargy-dependent neutron sources and, thus, includes overlapping and interference effects. An energy range of interest is divided into extremely narrow intervals of equal lethargy width. For each interval, the source distribution in each region is taken to be a three-term polynomial. By using this form for the source and the assumption that neutrons enter the rod isotropically, we obtain the reaction rates and the flux distribution for the interval. The reaction rates are used to obtain resonance integrals; the flux distribution is used to get the source distribution for lower energies. Calculations of the errors introduced into the resonance integral of the two closely spaced 232Th resonances by the assumption of flat sources are given, as well as calculations of the effects of interference in UO2-ThO2 mixtures, which lie within the errors of the experimental results obtained by Foell.