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Senate committee hears from energy secretary nominee Chris Wright
Wright
Chris Wright, president-elect Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Department of Energy, spent hours today fielding questions from members of the U.S. Senate’s committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
During the hearing, Wright—who’s spent most of his career in fossil fuels—made comments in support of nuclear energy and efforts to expand domestic generation in the near future. Asked what actions he would take as energy secretary to improve the development and deployment of SMRs, Wright said: “It’s a big challenge, and I’m new to government, so I can’t list off the five levers I can pull. But (I’ve been in discussions) about how to make it easier to research, to invest, to build things. The DOE has land at some of its facilities that can be helpful in this regard.”
I. J. Chen, E. M. Gelbard
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 99 | Number 3 | July 1988 | Pages 208-231
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A28994
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The narrow resonance (NR) approximation has, in the past, been applied mainly to regular lattices with fairly simple unit cells. Attempts to use the NR approximation to deal with fine details of the lattice structure, or with complicated lattice cells, have generally been based on assumptions and approximations that are rather difficult to evaluate. A benchmark method is developed in which slowing down is still treated in the NR approximation, but spatial neutron transport is handled by Monte Carlo. This benchmark method is used to evaluate older methods for analyzing the doubleheterogeneity effect in fast reactors, and for computing resonance integrals in the PROTEUS lattices. New methods for treating the PROTEUS lattices are proposed.
