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Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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NRC engineers share their expertise at the University of Puerto Rico
Robert Roche-Rivera and Marcos Rolón-Acevedo are licensed professional engineers who work at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. They are also alumni of the University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez (UPRM) and have been sharing their knowledge and experience with students at their alma mater since last year, serving as adjunct professors in the university’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. During the 2023–2024 school year, they each taught two courses: Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Nuclear Power Plant Engineering.
Luke J. Kersting, Alex Robinson, Eli Moll, Philip Britt, Lewis Gross, Douglass Henderson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 194 | Number 5 | May 2020 | Pages 350-372
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2019.1701344
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A new single scattering adjoint transport capability was implemented in Framework for REsearch in Nuclear ScIence and Engineering (FRENSIE). The Evaluated Electron Data Library (EEDL) was used to generate new tabulated adjoint data. All adjoint data were generated using refined EEDL data and a unit-base grid policy. Verification and validation tests were performed for the adjoint electron transport in FRENSIE. Adjoint simulation results were compared with forward simulation results for a self-adjoint infinite medium problem as well as experimental results for electron low-energy backscattering coefficients. Only a refined unit-base grid policy and coupled elastic scattering were tested for adjoint tests. The adjoint transport capability shows good agreement with the forward transport capability. The adjoint atomic excitation physics were unable to model a discrete forward source. For the self-adjoint infinite medium problems, the adjoint results matched the forward results to within 2% except near the cutoff energy. For backscattering coefficients, the adjoint results matched the forward results to within 5% for all converged bins. Overall, the adjoint transport capability was in good agreement with the forward transport capability validating the adjoint transport scheme.