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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.
R. N. Blomquist, E. M. Gelbard
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 83 | Number 3 | March 1983 | Pages 380-384
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A17571
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Several methods for sampling the Klein-Nishina distributions for scattered photon secondary energy are studied to determine an optimum sampling technique useful from 1 keV to 100 MeV. A commonly used approximate inverse method is evaluated for accuracy by analytically comparing the exact and approximate sampling distributions. This method, several rejection methods, and an exact direct sampling method are evaluated for computing speed on several different computers.