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DOE launches UPRISE to boost nuclear capacity
The Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy has launched a new initiative to meet the government’s goal of increasing U.S. nuclear energy capacity by boosting the power output of existing nuclear reactors through uprates and restarts and by completing stalled reactor projects.
UPRISE, the Utility Power Reactor Incremental Scaling Effort, managed by Idaho National Laboratory, is to “deliver immediate results that will accelerate nuclear power growth and foster innovation to address the nation’s urgent energy needs,” DOE-NE said in its announcement.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 166 | Number 1 | September 2010 | Pages 82-88
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE09-56TN
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To deal with the strong attenuation of neutral particle flux in matter, like in radiation shielding studies, several techniques are used in Monte Carlo transport codes (MCNP, MCBEND, TRIPOLI, etc.) to accelerate the simulation of neutron or gamma ray transport. The exponential transform is one of the techniques that has been applied by using first- and/or second-degree analytical importance functions. The present work extends the application of this technique to an analytical toroidal form of the importance function. In this case, the sampling of the particle track length involves the solution of a fourth-degree equation. The practical usefulness of this work can be found for neutron and gamma ray transport studies related to thermonuclear fusion tokamak devices, for example.