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Japan gets new U for enrichment as global power and fuel plans grow
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.
J. W. Lucey, K. F. Hansen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 33 | Number 3 | September 1968 | Pages 327-335
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A19241
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The Stabilized March Technique, SMT, is extended to the numerical solution of second-order, inhomogeneous problems, i.e., the multigroup neutron diffusion equations in one space dimension, and the one-velocity neutron transport equation in one space dimension. In the SMT, the solution vector is expanded in a complete set of vectors which is used in an unstable difference equation. The error growth is controlled, however, by periodic matrix transformations and may be preset. The method has its greatest advantage in relation to the computational speed of conventional methods in elongated meshes, such as multigroup diffusion calculations, or low-order discrete ordinate or PN calculations with many spatial mesh points.