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NRC proposes security regulation changes
In 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14300, “‘Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,” which directs the NRC to conduct a sweeping, multifaceted overhaul of its structure, culture, and regulations with the aim of facilitating increased deployment of new nuclear technologies and capacity.
Dongmei Pan, Zijia Zhao, Zhong Chen, Zhongliang Lv, Junhan Li
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 75 | Number 4 | May 2019 | Pages 317-323
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2019.1570809
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Rates of neutron production in deuterium-tritium (D-T) plasmas below the temperature of 100 keV have been widely studied with analytical cross sections based on nuclear physics. In the present work, a new algorithm of numerical simulation using the latest nuclear database ENDF/B-VII, discrete ordinate (SN) method, and Monte Carlo methods was developed to describe nuclear reactions in D-T plasma. Compared with the method that used analytical cross section, this new method can predict the nuclear reaction in plasma to several hundreds of kilo-electron-volts and has the potential to give information about directionality of the neutron flux and other interesting nuclear reactions, if needed.