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President Trump is in Japan today, with a visit with new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on the agenda. Takaichi, who took office just last week as Japan’s first female prime minister, has already spoken in favor of nuclear energy and of accelerating the restart of Japan’s long-shuttered power reactors, as Reuters and others have reported. Much of the uranium to power those reactors will be enriched at Japan’s lone enrichment facility—part of Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.’s Rokkasho fuel complex—which accepted its first delivery of fresh uranium hexafluoride (UF₆) in 11 years earlier this month.
R. H. Karcher, R. C. Erdmann, O. C. Baldonado
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 31 | Number 3 | March 1968 | Pages 492-499
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A17592
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The feasibility of track-length distribution biasing for the calculation of spatial and angular particle flux far from the source in an infinite medium is investigated. Calculations are performed for an idealized particle transport model having an exact analytical solution, and results for scalar flux are given to a penetration distance of approximately 60 mean-free-paths. Results are also given for angular distributions. It is found that the “optimum” biasing parameter “a” for scalar flux prediction can be approximated by a exp(−a) = 0.368c n/40 (a revised form of an empirical expression from an earlier study), where c is the probability of scatter and n is the desired penetration distance. If appropriate corrections are made for the effects of inelastic and hydrogen scatter, the present results can provide useful guidance in the application of the track-length distribution biasing technique to more realistic systems.