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NRC asks for comments on FY 2026 fees proposal
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is looking for feedback on its proposed rule for fees for fiscal year 2026, which begins October 1. The proposal was published in the March 12 Federal Register.
Based on the FY 2026 budget request because a full-year appropriation has not yet been enacted for the fiscal year, the proposed request is $971.5 million, an increase of $27.4 million from FY 2025.
Yutong Wen, Ding She, Lei Shi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 11 | November 2023 | Pages 2920-2934
Regular Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2172312
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
There exists a neutron streaming effect in the high-temperature gas-cooled pebble-bed reactor (HTGR) pebble-bed core caused by the spatial heterogeneity of the neutron’s free path, which has a remarkable impact on neutron leakage. It is necessary to take into consideration the streaming effect in evaluating the homogenized diffusion coefficient of the pebble bed, prior to the whole-core diffusion calculation. In this paper, two methods are proposed for calculating the homogenized multigroup diffusion coefficient of the pebble bed based on migration area conservation theory and Benoist’s theory, respectively. Compared with existing methods, the newly proposed methods are adaptable to a general pebble bed consisting of multitype pebbles and nonvacuum atmosphere. Numerical results demonstrate the proposed methods’ effectiveness and consistency in evaluation of the pebble-bed homogenized diffusion coefficient.