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Workshop hints at robust support for nuclear expansion in Arizona
Palo Verde, with three reactors and a combined capacity of about 4,000 MWe, is the only nuclear power plant in Arizona. But that could very well change soon if state officials have their way.
Much like other states in the West, Arizona believes nuclear energy is a vital component of the state’s future energy portfolio. At a special meeting of the Arizona Corporation Commission on February 24, commissioners, officials, and others in attendance showed broad bipartisan support for expanding nuclear energy.
Christian Aussourd
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 143 | Number 3 | March 2003 | Pages 281-290
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE03-A2336
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Complementary methods may be used to solve the neutron transport problem. When only a small amount of information is needed, the most efficient method is obviously Monte Carlo. However, when perfect knowledge of the full phase-space is required, it is worth using a deterministic technique. Nevertheless, this memory and CPU time intensive approach may soon overwhelm even the most powerful computer. To deal with these issues, an adapted mesh refinement transport scheme was developed that solely retains active areas of a geometry. The computer code Styx, built on this efficient set of numerical methods, specially designed and tuned to run on such a tree-based topology, is presented. A test case subset, representative of the wide spectrum of multidimensional applications it covers, is then analyzed.