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World Bank, IAEA partner to fund nuclear energy
The World Bank and the International Atomic Energy Agency signed an agreement last week to cooperate on the construction and financing of advanced nuclear projects in developing countries, marking the first partnership since the bank ended its ban on funding for nuclear energy projects.
Danhua ShangGuan, Gang Li, Baoyin Zhang, Li Deng, Yan Ma, Yuanguan Fu, Rui Li,Xiaoli Hu
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 182 | Number 4 | April 2016 | Pages 555-562
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE15-32
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Based on the inspiration of the uniform fission site (UFS) algorithm, we propose a strategy for biasing fission secondary neutrons using tally density obtained from past cycles in a Monte Carlo criticality calculation when the purpose is to seek high-performance global tallying. Using this strategy for global volume-averaged cell flux and energy deposition tallies when performing criticality calculations on a pin-by-pin model of the Dayawan nuclear power station nuclear reactor yields better performance. All the strategies (including the original UFS algorithm) are implemented in a parallel Monte Carlo particle transport code JMCT (J Monte Carlo Transport), which is recently developed software constructed on the framework of JCOGIN (J COmbinatorial Geometry Monte Carlo transport INfrastructure).