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NRC proposes changes to its rules on nuclear materials
In response to Executive Order 14300, “Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,” the NRC is proposing sweeping changes to its rules governing the use of nuclear materials that are widely used in industry, medicine, and research. The changes would amend NRC regulations for the licensing of nuclear byproduct material, some source material, and some special nuclear material.
As published in the May 18 Federal Register, the NRC is seeking public comment on this proposed rule and draft interim guidance until July 2.
P. Benoist
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 34 | Number 3 | December 1968 | Pages 285-307
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-3
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In a previous publication by Benoist, a simple and general formulation of the streaming effect in lattices was established which defines the diffusion coefficients by a suitable weighting of the mean-free-paths of the various media; this formulation introduced special types of collision probabilities initially calculated by an iteration technique. However, it appeared better to work with a closed formulation as the series of angular correlation terms evidenced a very slow convergence, especially for large channels. This approach requires the solution of the Boltzmann equation with particular types of sources. This solution is shown to be equivalent to the treatment of a cell in terms of some fictitious reaction. rates which are defined. The problem is essentially analogous to the calculation of the thermal utilization factor, an analogy that has been exploited as far as possible. Finally, by an adjustment on the corresponding void channel system, the treatment of fueled channels is made and a new method is proposed for the direct treatment of the latter case. The new expressions obtained for the diffusion coefficients are very simple and the numerical results obtained with them agree very well with reference calculations made by a variational method which is also exposed. Various auxiliary corrections are studied, and, finally, formulae for practical utilization are given in the Appendix.