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Bipartisan nuclear waste bill introduced in U.S. House
U.S. representatives Mike Levin (D., Calif.) and August Pfluger (R., Texas) have introduced the bipartisan Nuclear Waste Administration Act of 2024, which would establish an independent agency to manage the country’s nuclear waste.
In addition to establishing a new, single-purpose administration to manage the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle, the bill would direct a consent-based siting process for nuclear waste facilities and ensure reliable funding for managing nuclear waste by providing access to the Nuclear Waste Fund. According to Pfluger and Levin, the bill’s provisions are in line with recommendations from the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future.
Ville Valtavirta, Tuomas Viitanen, Jaakko Leppänen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 177 | Number 2 | June 2014 | Pages 193-202
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE13-3
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This paper describes the built-in calculation routines in the reactor physics code Serpent 2 that provide a novel method for solving the coupled problem of the power distribution, temperature distribution, and material property distributions in nuclear fuel elements. All of the coupled distributions are solved during a single simulation with no coupling to external codes. The temperature feedback system consists of three separate built-in parts: an explicit treatment of the thermal motion of target nuclides during the transport calculation, an internal analytic radial temperature profile solver, and internal material property correlations. The internal structure and couplings of the calculation routines are described in detail, after which the results of an assembly-level problem are presented to demonstrate the capabilities and functionality of the system.