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EPA administrator Lee Zeldin talks the future of nuclear
In a recent interview on New York radio station 77 WABC, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Lee Zeldin talked with host John Catsimatidis about the near-term future of the domestic nuclear industry and the role the EPA will play in the sector.
Catsimatidis kicked off the interview by asking if the U.S. will be able to reach total energy independence. Zeldin responded by saying that decreasing energy dependence on other countries, especially adversaries, was a top priority for him and the Trump administration.
Yasushi Nomura, Takanori Shimooke
Nuclear Technology | Volume 65 | Number 2 | May 1984 | Pages 340-349
Technical Paper | Criticality Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT84-A33416
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Some 500 cases of benchmark calculations on criticality problems for homogeneous experimental systems have been made with the KENO-IV Monte Carlo calculation code using the MGCL cross-section data library. The calculation results have been analyzed to classify the experimental systems so as to make the variance of calculated keff bias as small as possible in each classified system. The trends of bias are identified and illustrated to be optimumly expressed by a multiple variable regression equation in terms of several variables, which adequately correlate with the bias value of keff calculated for the experiments. The uncertainty accompanied by bias correction for calculated keff is clearly determined, and the margin set aside for the experimental error is assessed. Finally, the procedure to estimate nuclear criticality safety is proposed.