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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.
W. L. Filippone
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 99 | Number 3 | July 1988 | Pages 232-250
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A28995
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SMART (simulation of many accumulative Rutherford trajectories) scattering theory is based on a scattering matrix designed to eliminate angular and possibly energy discretization errors. This is done without resorting to negative matrix elements. In effect, the true scattering law is replaced by one with fewer collisions but larger deflections per collision. The two scattering laws are equivalent, at least in space-independent calculations. To the extent that this equivalence holds true for space-dependent problems, the major numerical obstacle to electron transport modeling is removed. SMART scattering theory has been used in one-dimensional streaming ray and two-dimensional SN codes in lieu of Fokker-Planck or extended transport correction techniques, and in a one-dimensional discrete angle Monte Carlo code in place of the condensed history approach. Excellent results have been obtained.