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Two steps forward for U.K. advanced nuclear
This week, two significant announcements have emerged from the United Kingdom’s advanced reactor sector.
On June 14, Rolls-Royce, the United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory, and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency announced that they had signed two trilateral memorandums of cooperation to collaborate on “advanced modular reactor (AMR) technology, specifically high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGR), and the coated particle fuel these reactors will use.”
Separately, on June 16, Bellevue, Wash.–based TerraPower announced that its Natrium reactor design has been formally submitted for U.K. regulatory review. The company also announced the formation of a new subsidiary, TerraPower UK Ltd.
B. A. Worley
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 91 | Number 3 | November 1985 | Pages 293-304
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE85-A17306
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A standard assumption used in unit-cell interface-current codes is that neutrons enter each spatial region with an isotropic angular distribution. The physical interpretation of this assumption is discussed, and the magnitude of the error introduced by it is shown for a range of practical unit-cell geometries. An improvement on the calculation of first-flight transmission probabilities for one-dimensional unit cells based on limiting the neutron source angular distribution to physically possible neutron flight directions is then presented. For three-region problems, one additional calculation of a revised outer region transmission probability is sufficient for determining all the revised transmission probabilities of interest. Calculation of the revised transmission probabilities requires only minor coding changes and eliminates the improper angular redistribution of neutrons at the region boundaries.