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Charles E. Till
Charles E. Till, an ANS member since 1963 and Fellow since 1987, passed away on March 22 at the age of 89. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from Imperial College, University of London. Till initially worked for the Civilian Atomic Power Department of the Canadian General Electric Company, where he was the physicist in charge of the startup of the first prototype CANDU reactor in Canada.
Till joined Argonne National Laboratory in 1963 in the Applied Physics Division, where he worked as an experimentalist in the Fast Critical Experiments program. He then moved to additional positions of increasing responsibility, becoming division director in 1973. Under his leadership, the Applied Physics Division established itself as one of the elite reactor physics organizations in the world. Both the experimental (critical experiments and nuclear data measurements) and nuclear analysis methods work were internationally recognized. Till led Argonne’s participation in the International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation (INFCE), and he was the lead U.S. delegate to INFCE Working Group 5, Fast Breeders.
Ulrich Grundmann, Frank Hollstein
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 133 | Number 2 | October 1999 | Pages 201-212
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE99-A2082
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A new nodal method HEXNEM2 for hexagonal geometry is described. The method is based on a two-dimensional expansion of the intranodal fluxes. Polynomials up to the second order and exponential functions are used in each group. By this method, the singular terms occurring in the transverse integration methods are avoided. Side-averaged and corner-point values of fluxes and currents are used for the coupling of nodes. A calculation scheme for the outgoing partial currents at the sides and similar expressions for the corners from given incoming values are used in the inner iteration, which gives a fast-running scheme. The method is tested against two-dimensional hexagonal benchmark problems for the VVER-type reactors. The results show that the multiplication factor and nodal powers are predicted accurately. A considerable improvement can be shown in the results for the VVER-1000 benchmarks compared with the method developed previously for the code DYN3D and the simpler method HEXNEM1.