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The division was organized to promote the advancement of knowledge of the use of particle accelerator technologies for nuclear and other applications. It focuses on production of neutrons and other particles, utilization of these particles for scientific or industrial purposes, such as the production or destruction of radionuclides significant to energy, medicine, defense or other endeavors, as well as imaging and diagnostics.
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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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IAEA’s nuclear security center offers hands-on training
In the past year and a half, the International Atomic Energy Agency has established the Nuclear Security Training and Demonstration Center (NSTDC) to help countries strengthen their nuclear security regimes. The center, located at the IAEA’s Seibersdorf laboratories outside Vienna, Austria, has been operational since October 2023.
Anurag Gupta, R. S. Modak
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 194 | Number 2 | February 2020 | Pages 87-103
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2019.1668655
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Monte Carlo calculations for the evaluation of fundamental mode solution of k-eigenvalue problems generally make use of the Power Iteration (PI) method, which suffers from poor convergence, particularly in the case of large, loosely coupled systems. In the present paper, a method called Meyer’s Subspace Iteration (SSI) method, also called the Simultaneous vector iteration algorithm, is applied for the Monte Carlo solution of the k-eigenvalue problem. The SSI method is the block generalization of the single-vector PI method and has been found to work efficiently for solving the problem with the deterministic neutron transport setup. It is found that the convergence of the fundamental k-eigenvalue and corresponding fission source distribution improves substantially with the SSI-based Monte Carlo method as compared to the PI-based Monte Carlo method. To reduce the extra computational effort needed for simultaneous iterations with several vectors, a novel procedure is adopted in which it takes almost the same effort as with the single-vector PI-based Monte Carlo method. The algorithm is applied to several one-dimensional slab test cases of varying difficulty, and the results are compared with the standard PI method. It is observed that unlike the PI method, the SSI-based Monte Carlo method converges quickly and does not require many inactive generations before the mean and variance of eigenvalues could be estimated. It has been demonstrated that the SSI method can simultaneously find a set of the most dominant higher k-eigenmodes in addition to the fundamental mode solution.