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The drive to Kairos Power’s reactor demonstration site in Oak Ridge, Tenn., is not only scenic—it’s historic. Nearly 85 years ago, roughly 30,000 construction workers transformed orchards and farmland into a key Manhattan Project site. Depending on your route, you may pass by one of the three gatehouses that were once military checkpoints controlling access to Atomic Energy Commission production facilities.
Mihály Makai
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 82 | Number 3 | December 1982 | Pages 338-353
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-338
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Solving problems of reactor physics is well developed for typical pressurized water and boiling water reactor geometries but less developed for high-temperature gas-cooled reactor, liquid-metal fast breeder reactor, and WWER (BBP) geometries. Several problems of reactor physics can be formulated in a geometry-independent fashion with the help of symmetry considerations, which allows the solution to be decomposed into eigenfunctions of the symmetry operations. An analytic coarse-mesh solution is derived without resorting to the cross leakage concept. The method is applicable to arbitrary geometries. A second-stage homogenization based on the Bloch theorem is presented. It is shown that the solution of the transport equation can always be made up from a cell problem set (microfunctions) and from an overall solution to the diffusion equation (macrofunction).