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NWTRB to hold public meeting on SNF disposal and corrosion
The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, an independent federal agency that evaluates the Department of Energy’s efforts to manage and dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste, will hold a two-day public meeting May 21–22 to review information on the DOE’s research and development activities related to the disposal of SNF and HLW in crystalline host rocks and on the corrosion of commercial SNF after disposal.
J. B. Yasinsky and A. F. Henry
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 22 | Number 2 | June 1965 | Pages 171-181
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A20236
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Numerical comparisons have been made between exact and approximate solutions to the two-group space-time diffusion equations. Two slab cores were studied, one 240-cm thick and the other 60-cm thick. Prompt critical bursts and limited ramp insertions of reactivity were simulated by imposing perturbations on the fission cross sections throughout the first quarter of the core. Feedback effects were neglected. Results were obtained using the conventional point kinetics equation, the adiabatic approximation and the space-time synthesis method. For one situation, two nodal methods were also examined. Comparisons with the exact space-time solutions suggest that, when the point kinetics equations are expected on qualitative grounds to be a poor approximation, the actual quantitative errors can be extremely large. Of the other approximations tested the space-time synthesis method gave the most accurate results.