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Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
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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.
B. D. Ganapol, Ó. López Pouso
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 9 | September 2023 | Pages 2327-2342
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2194228
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The Fokker-Planck equation (FPE) is one of the quintessential equations of particle transport theory. Representing small angle scattering characteristics of electron and photon transport by differential scattering indeed is a mathematical/numerical challenge. Here, we address the challenge with the method of response matrix applied to the Sn approximation to arrive at a nearly six-place-precision benchmark. Our approach aligns with the response matrix solution of the radiative transfer equation for anisotropic scattering published previously. We conclude with the comparison of the response matrix benchmark to a classical finite difference approximation.