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Industry Update—February 2026
Here is a recap of recent industry happenings:
Supply chain contract signed for Aurora
Oklo, the California-based developer of the Aurora Powerhouse sodium-cooled fast-neutron reactor, has signed a contract with Siemens Energy that is meant to de-risk supply chain and production timeline challenges for Oklo. Under the terms, Siemens will design and deliver the power conversion system for the Powerhouse, which is to be deployed at Idaho National Laboratory.
Anil Kumar, Jacques Ligou
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 96 | Number 1 | May 1987 | Pages 1-7
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE87-A16358
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The Boltynann-Fokker-Planck (BFP) equation has been applied to treat the photon transport in highly anisotropic scattering media. Some benchmark cases relating to haze and cloud media have been investigated. It is found that, in general, the number of Legendre moments required for the BFP equation is a factor of ∼5 lower compared to that for the standard (discrete ordinates Sn) approach for solving the Boltzmann equation for the comparable precision on the integral quantities like the albedo and transmission factor. But BFP is much more economical if one seeks precision on angular fluxes.