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Donalds, Barnard call for streamlining NRC’s regulatory process
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“To be frank, any emissions-related climate goals are moonshots without nuclear energy, and next-generation nuclear technology is something that the United States can and SHOULD lead on.” So writes U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds (R., Fla.) and Christopher Barnard, vice president of external affairs for the American Conservation Coalition, in an essay published by RealClear Energy.
Good news: Donalds, one of the strongest advocates for nuclear energy in the U.S. House, and Barnard, publisher and coauthor of Green Market Revolution, begin their essay by noting some recent positive developments for nuclear power. They characterize the initial criticality of Vogtle-3, the first new nuclear reactor built in the United States in about 30 years, as “a monumental achievement for the American nuclear industry.” They praise the Biden administration’s allocation of funds to keep established nuclear plants operational.
Tuomas Viitanen, Jaakko Leppänen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 171 | Number 2 | June 2012 | Pages 165-173
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE11-36
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This paper introduces a new stochastic method for taking the effect of thermal motion into account on the fly in a Monte Carlo neutron transport calculation. The method is based on explicit treatment of the motion of target nuclei at collision sites and, consequently, requires simply cross sections at a temperature of 0 K regardless of the number of temperatures in the problem geometry. It utilizes rejection sampling techniques to manage the fact that total cross sections become distributed quantities. The method has a novel capability of accurately modeling continuous temperature distributions.The new stochastic method is verified using a simple test program, which compares its results to an analytical reference solution based on NJOY-broadened cross sections. Future implementation to Monte Carlo reactor physics code Serpent is also discussed shortly.