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MARVEL PDSA approval could serve as blueprint
MARVEL, the Microreactor Applications Research Validation and Evaluation project at Idaho National Laboratory, has had its preliminary documented safety analysis approved by the Department of Energy, marking a milestone in its development and serving as a potential outline for other microreactors in development.
Thomas E. Booth and John S. Hendricks
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 90 | Number 3 | July 1985 | Pages 248-255
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE85-A17766
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A method of sampling the Wienke formula for Compton scattering in Monte Carlo calculations has been developed. The Wienke formula differs from the well-known Klein-Nishina formula in that it considers electrons in relativistic Maxwellian motion. The proposed sampling method for the Wienke formula is a rejection technique similar to Kahn's method for the Klein-Nishina formula.