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ANS and the U.K.’s NI announce reciprocal membership agreement
With President Trump on a state visit to the U.K., in part to sign a landmark new agreement on U.S.-U.K. nuclear collaboration, a flurry of transatlantic partnerships and deals bridging the countries’ nuclear sectors have been announced.
The American Nuclear Society is taking an active role in this bridge-building by forming a reciprocal membership agreement with the U.K.’s Nuclear Institute.
J. W. Lucey, K. F. Hansen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 33 | Number 3 | September 1968 | Pages 327-335
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A19241
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The Stabilized March Technique, SMT, is extended to the numerical solution of second-order, inhomogeneous problems, i.e., the multigroup neutron diffusion equations in one space dimension, and the one-velocity neutron transport equation in one space dimension. In the SMT, the solution vector is expanded in a complete set of vectors which is used in an unstable difference equation. The error growth is controlled, however, by periodic matrix transformations and may be preset. The method has its greatest advantage in relation to the computational speed of conventional methods in elongated meshes, such as multigroup diffusion calculations, or low-order discrete ordinate or PN calculations with many spatial mesh points.