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Nuclear Energy Strategy announced at CNA2026
At the Canadian Nuclear Association Conference (CNA2026) in Ottawa, Ontario, on April 29, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Tim Hodgson announced that Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) is developing a new Nuclear Energy Strategy for the country. The strategy, which is slated to be released by the end of this year, will be based on four objectives: 1) enabling new nuclear builds across Canada, 2) being a global supplier and exporter of nuclear technology and services, 3) expanding uranium production and nuclear fuel opportunities, and 4) developing new Canadian nuclear innovations, including in both fission and fusion technologies.
M. J. Ohanian, P. B. Daitch
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 19 | Number 3 | July 1964 | Pages 343-352
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A20967
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Numerical solutions of the time-dependent thermalization problem in infinite 1/ν poisoned media as well as in finite media in the diffusion approximation have been obtained using an eigenfunction expansion of the neutron-density function in a discrete-energy representation. This eigenfunction method is compared with a method based on direct integration of the Boltzmann equation using a discrete-energy mesh for the scattering integral and a first-order Taylor series for the time integration. Both methods of calculation have given the same results where compared in the area of time-dependent and steady-state spectra. The Wigner-Wilkins Mass-1 and Nelkin scattering models have been used with particular emphasis on the computation of time-dependent, asymptotic, steady-state spectra and diffusion parameters and the determination of their sensitivity to the scattering kernel. It is found that time-dependent spectra are rather sensitive to the scattering kernel, particularly at times of the order of a few microseconds after the introduction of a neutron pulse in the case of hydrogenous moderators. The eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for both realistic scattering kernels show the characteristics predicted for simpler analytic models. Both discrete and continuum eigenvalues have been found with the eigenfunctions corresponding to the continuum eigenvalues exhibiting a characteristic singular behavior. An interpolation scheme to determine steady-state spectra in hydrogenous moderators is also presented. The method, which is based on interpolating in the reciprocal of the infinite-medium neutron lifetime, gives very good agreement with directly computed spectra in the range of 200 to 15 microseconds lifetime. A perturbation method based upon the infinite-medium eigenfunctions is used to compute diffusion parameters for the decay constant in water; this method, through terms in B4, yields the decay constant to better than 1% in comparison with the exact diffusion theory result for B2 = 1.0 cm-2.
