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ARG-US Remote Monitoring Systems: Use Cases and Applications in Nuclear Facilities and During Transportation
As highlighted in the Spring 2024 issue of Radwaste Solutions, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory are developing and deploying ARG-US—meaning “Watchful Guardian”—remote monitoring systems technologies to enhance the safety, security, and safeguards (3S) of packages of nuclear and other radioactive material during storage, transportation, and disposal.
Indrajeet Singh, S. B. Degweker, Amod Kishore Mallick, Anurag Gupta
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 193 | Number 8 | August 2019 | Pages 868-883
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2019.1576453
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In a recent paper, we described the development of a method for calculating exact collision probabilities between different regions (namely, fuel kernels, graphite matrix, moderator, and coolant) of a lattice cell of a high temperature reactor (HTR) of the pebble bed variety. The method was shown to adequately represent the double heterogeneity in such reactors. In the present paper, we use some of the results obtained in that paper to construct a fast Monte Carlo algorithm for treatment of HTRs. This paper discusses the theoretical basis of the Monte Carlo algorithm, its implementation for the case of a lattice cell with the energy variable treated using a multigroup library, and results obtained. The method can be easily extended to full-core calculations using point cross-section data.