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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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Terrestrial Energy looks at EnergySolutions-owned sites for IMSR plants
Advanced reactor developer Terrestrial Energy and Utah-based waste management company EnergySolutions announced they have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on the siting and deployment of Terrestrial Energy’s integral molten salt reactor plants at EnergySolutions-owned sites.
M. Dion, G. Marleau
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 183 | Number 2 | June 2016 | Pages 261-274
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE15-60
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The sensitivity coefficients of self-shielded cross sections to isotopic densities are computed for a subgroup resonance self-shielding model. The method we propose is based on the derivatives of the collision probabilities used in the slowing-down equation. In this work, we look at how the sensitivities vary as a function of the position inside a fuel pin or of the position of a fuel pin within an assembly. Moreover, we evaluate the importance of the superhomogenization factors, used to correct self-shielded cross sections for the subgroup method, on the cross-section sensitivities. We also present a comparison with the Monte Carlo code Serpent where the sensitivity coefficients are approximated using a finite difference method.