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Powering the future: How the DOE is fueling nuclear fuel cycle research and development
As global interest in nuclear energy surges, the United States must remain at the forefront of research and development to ensure national energy security, advance nuclear technologies, and promote international cooperation on safety and nonproliferation. A crucial step in achieving this is analyzing how funding and resources are allocated to better understand how to direct future research and development. The Department of Energy has spearheaded this effort by funding hundreds of research projects across the country through the Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP). This initiative has empowered dozens of universities to collaborate toward a nuclear-friendly future.
Chuande Yang, Pierre Benoist
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 86 | Number 1 | January 1984 | Pages 47-62
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE84-A17969
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Scattering anisotropy is often taken into account, in an isotropic formalism, by a transport correction. This correction, which, even in a homogeneous medium, is known to be false in a multigroup theory, is always incorrect for the calculation of neutron leakages in a lattice. The method presented here allows calculation of the buckling-independent diffusion coefficients in a Wigner-Seitz cell, for a linearly anisotropic scattering law. It allows testing of the degree of approximation of the transport correction in various types of lattices, and shows that the axial coefficient may be strongly underestimated in certain cases. This method also allows testing of the simple formulas presented in the past for diffusion coefficients, which lead to good results. The problem of the coupling between energy groups, which appears in the calculation of diffusion coefficients, is also analyzed by the present method; it usually appears to be weak.