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Texas opens $350M in nuclear funding
Three years ago, the Texas Public Utility Commission launched the Advanced Nuclear Reactor Working Group at the direction of Gov. Greg Abbott. One year later, that new group issued a report recommending several actions to the Texas legislature that could be taken to attract new nuclear projects to the state.
Included in those recommendations were the foundation of a nonregulatory entity to coordinate Texas’s “strategic nuclear vision” along with an advanced nuclear fund to help “overcome the funding valley project developers face” in the state.
W. L. Filippone
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 92 | Number 3 | March 1986 | Pages 421-439
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A17530
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A closed-form solution for the angular-spatial moments of the Spencer-Lewis equation is presented that is valid for infinite homogeneous media. From the moments, the electron density distribution as a function of position and path length (energy) is reconstructed for several sample problems involving plane isotropic sources of electrons in aluminum. The results are in excellent agreement with those determined numerically using the streaming ray method. The primary use of the closed form solution will most likely be to generate accurate electron transport benchmark solutions. In principle, the electron density as a function of space, path length, and direction can be determined for planar sources of arbitrary angular distribution.