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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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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
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TerraPower begins U.K. regulatory approval process
Seattle-based TerraPower signaled its interest this week in building its Natrium small modular reactor in the United Kingdom, the company announced.
TerraPower sent a letter to the U.K.’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, formally establishing its intention to enter the U.K. generic design assessment (GDA) process. This is TerraPower’s first step in deployment of its Natrium technology—a 345-MW sodium fast reactor coupled with a molten salt energy storage unit—on the international stage.
E. Rich, Gilles Noguere, C. De Saint Jean, A. Tudora
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 162 | Number 1 | May 2009 | Pages 76-86
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE162-76
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
For the modeling of the neutron cross sections, three energy ranges can be distinguished. The resolved resonance range can be interpreted in terms of single-level, multilevel, Reich-Moore, or R-matrix parameters. The unresolved resonance range (URR) is described with the average R-matrix and Hauser-Feshbach formalisms. For the high energies ("continuum"), optical model parameters are used in association with statistical and preequilibrium models. One of the main challenges of such a work is to study the consistency of the average parameters obtained by these different calculations. With the ESTIMA and SPRT methods, we provide a set of parameters for partial s-waves and p-waves (strength functions Sl and effective potential scattering radius R'). However, accurate analysis of the URR domain needs more information than parameters R' and Sl associated with orbital moments l = 0 and l = 1. Using links between the average R-matrix formalism and the optical model calculations, we propose a generalization of the SPRT method for l > 1 and a new description of the URR domain in terms of Sl and RlJ.
