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X-energy, Dow apply to build an advanced reactor project in Texas
Dow and X-energy announced today that they have submitted a construction permit application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a proposed advanced nuclear project in Seadrift, Texas. The project could begin construction later this decade, but only if Dow confirms “the ability to deliver the project while achieving its financial return targets.”
Ignas Mickus, Jan Dufek, Kaur Tuttelberg
Nuclear Technology | Volume 191 | Number 2 | August 2015 | Pages 193-198
Technical Note | Reprocessing | doi.org/10.13182/NT14-48
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We present a stability test of the explicit Euler and predictor-corrector–based coupling schemes in Monte Carlo burnup calculations of the gas fast reactor fuel assembly. Previous studies have identified numerical instabilities of these coupling schemes in Monte Carlo burnup calculations of thermal spectrum reactors due to spatial feedback–induced neutron flux and nuclide density oscillations, where only sufficiently small time steps could guarantee acceptable precision. New results suggest that these instabilities are insignificant in fast-spectrum assembly burnup calculations, and the considered coupling schemes can therefore perform well in fast-spectrum reactor burnup calculations even with relatively large time steps.