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U.K.’s NWS gets input from young people on geological disposal
Nuclear Waste Services, the radioactive waste management subsidiary of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, has reported on its inaugural year of the National Youth Forum on Geological Disposal forum. NWS set up the initiative, in partnership with the environmental consultancy firm ARUP and the not-for-profit organization The Young Foundation, to give young people the chance to share their views on the government’s plans to develop a geological disposal facility (GDF) for the safe, secure, and long-term disposal of radioactive waste.
Andreas Pautz, Adolf Birkhofer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 145 | Number 3 | November 2003 | Pages 299-319
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE03-A2385
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A new neutron transport code for time-dependent analyses of nuclear systems has been developed. The code DORT-TD is based on the well-known Discrete Ordinates code DORT, which solves the steady-state neutron transport equation in two dimensions for an arbitrary number of energy groups and standard regular geometries. For the implementation of time-dependence, a fully implicit, unconditionally stable time integration scheme was employed to minimize errors due to temporal discretization. This requires several modifications to the transport equation and the extensive use of sophisticated acceleration mechanisms. The convergence criteria for fluxes and fission densities had to be strongly tightened to ensure the reliability of results. We also allowed for cross sections varying with time to couple neutronics and thermal hydraulics calculations. The neutronics code was finally applied to a research reactor to show its capabilities for both slow and fast transients.