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Ho Nieh, TVA board members, and nuclear fuel recycling bill head to Senate floor
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Ho Nieh, the Trump administration’s nominee to be a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and four new board members of the Tennessee Valley Authority were approved in a vote today by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and head to the Senate floor for a final vote.
The committee also voted to advance to the Senate floor the Nuclear REFUEL Act of 2025 (S. 2082), which would smooth the regulatory pathway for recycling used nuclear fuel.
President Donald nominated Nieh on July 30 to serve as NRC commissioner for the remainder of a term set to expire June 30, 2029, which was held by former NRC commissioner Chris Hanson, who Trump fired in June.
Gabriel Kooreman, Farzad Rahnema
Nuclear Technology | Volume 192 | Number 3 | December 2015 | Pages 264-277
Technical Paper | Radiation Transport and Protection | doi.org/10.13182/NT14-150
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The hybrid Diffusion-Transport Homogenization (DTH) method has been improved by replacing the assembly-level fixed-source calculation step with a fixed number of whole-core transport sweeps following each homogenization step. Like the unmodified DTH method, the Enhanced hybrid Diffusion-Transport Homogenization (EDTH) method adds an “auxiliary cross-section” term to the right side of the transport equation in order to maintain consistency with the heterogeneous equation. As an improvement to the DTH method, the on-the-fly rehomogenization step of the EDTH method utilizes a fixed number of full-core transport sweeps in lieu of assembly-level fixed-source heterogeneous transport calculations. The EDTH method has been tested in one-dimensional reactor core benchmark problems typical of a boiling water reactor core, a gas-cooled thermal reactor [High Temperature Test Reactor (HTTR)] core, and a pressurized water reactor core with mixed-oxide fuel. The method has been shown to reproduce the heterogeneous transport flux profile with 0 to 46 pcm eigenvalue error and 0.1% to 1.8% mean relative flux error with a speedup factor of 1.4 to 4.5 times faster than the DTH method. This represents a speedup of 3.0 to 12.5 times compared to fine-mesh transport.