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In an international industry, regulators cross the border too
Since nuclear physics works the same in Ontario as it does in Tennessee, the industry has been trying to create a reactor that can be deployed on both sides of the border. Now, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission have decided that some of their rulings can cross the border too.
Dmitriy Y. Anistratov
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 174 | Number 2 | June 2013 | Pages 150-162
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE12-28
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The nonlinear diffusion acceleration (NDA) method is an efficient and flexible transport iterative scheme for solving reactor-physics problems. This paper presents a fast iterative algorithm for solving multigroup neutron transport eigenvalue problems in one-dimensional slab geometry. The proposed method is defined by a multilevel system of equations that includes multigroup and effective one-group low-order NDA equations. The eigenvalue is evaluated in an exact projected solution space of the smallest dimensionality. Numerical results that illustrate the performance of the new algorithm are demonstrated.