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Oklo provides updates on DOE, NRC approvals
On March 17, Oklo released a series of four press releases in the span of a few hours containing some of the first substantial updates the company has given on its various approval processes with the Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission since January.
Specifically, Oklo announced that it has received two nuclear safety design agreement (NSDA) approvals from the DOE and a materials license from the NRC.
B. D. Ganapol
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 1 | January 2023 | Pages 1-13
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2097494
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Here, we are concerned with a new, highly precise, numerical solution to the one-dimensional neutron transport equation based on Case’s analytical, singular eigenfunction expansion (SEE). While a considerable number of numerical solutions currently exist, understandably, because of its complexity even in one dimension, there are only a few truly analytical solutions to the neutron transport equation. In 1960, Case introduced a consistent theory of the SEE for a variety of idealized transport problems and forever changed the landscape of analytical transport theory. Several numerical methods, including the Fn method, were based on the theory. What is presented is yet another, called the Lagrange order N method (LNM) featuring the simplicity and precision of the Fn method, but for a more convenient and natural Lagrangian polynomial basis.