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BWXT will scout potential TRISO fuel production sites in Wyoming
BWX Technologies Inc. announced today that its Advanced Technologies subsidiary has signed a cooperation agreement with the state of Wyoming to evaluate locations and requirements for siting a potential new TRISO nuclear fuel fabrication facility in the state.
Nobuo Sasamoto, Kiyoshi Takeuchi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 47 | Number 1 | January 1980 | Pages 189-199
Technical Paper | Shielding | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32422
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An assessment of the calculational accuracy of the discrete-ordinates codes, PALLAS-2DCY and DOT-III, has been performed for gamma-ray transport through air from a 60Co point isotropic source. The first collision source technique was used in the calculations. The results were compared with the measured exposure dose rates near the ground surface. Also, the ratio of the dose rates by gamma rays incident on and reflected from the ground was compared between the calculations. In addition, the calculated angular fluxes were examined. It is shown that the use of a truncated Legendre polynomial expansion implemented on DOT-III is not sufficient for calculations of gamma-ray scattering in air, while the direct application of the Klein-Nishina formula on PALLAS-2DCY is adequate to the calculations. Both two-dimensional transport codes, however, are useful for calculating the gamma-ray transport through air with a practical accuracy. PALLAS-2DCY requires one-fifth the central processor unit time as DOT-III.