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G7 pledges support for nuclear at Italy meeting
The Group of Seven (G7) recommitted its support for nuclear energy in the countries that opt to use it at a Ministerial Meeting on Climate in Italy last month.
In a statement following the April meeting, the group committed to support multilateral efforts to strengthen the resilience of nuclear supply chains, referencing the goal set by 25 countries during last year’s COP28 climate conference in Dubai to triple global nuclear generating capacity by 2050.
Shoichiro Okita, Yuji Fukaya, Atsushi Sakon, Tadafumi Sano, Yoshiyuki Takahashi, Hironobu Unesaki
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 8 | August 2023 | Pages 2251-2257
Technical Note from: PHYSOR 2022 | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2087836
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In this paper, integral experiments on a graphite-moderated core were conducted at the B-rack of the Kyoto University Criticality Assembly in order to develop an integral experiment database for the applicability of data assimilation techniques to the neutronic design of a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor. The calculation/experiment-1 (C/E-1)values for the keff values at critical cores with the major nuclear data libraries, such as JENDL-4.0, JENDL-5, JEFF-3.2, ENDF/B-VII.1, and ENDF/B-VIII.0, were calculated for the core. Of these, the keff values with JENDL-5 with thermal neutron scattering law data for 30% porous graphite showed the best agreement with experimental values within 0.02% accuracy.