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This division promotes the development and timely introduction of fusion energy as a sustainable energy source with favorable economic, environmental, and safety attributes. The division cooperates with other organizations on common issues of multidisciplinary fusion science and technology, conducts professional meetings, and disseminates technical information in support of these goals. Members focus on the assessment and resolution of critical developmental issues for practical fusion energy applications.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
Pekka Jauho, Markku Rajamäki
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 43 | Number 2 | February 1971 | Pages 145-153
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A21262
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The solutions to the one-dimensional energy-dependent Boltzmann equations for two different media are shown to possess such a full-range completeness property that an arbitrary function satisfying a Hölder condition can be expanded in terms containing solutions to both equations. These solutions are given by Leonard and Ferziger. This property makes it possible to solve energy-dependent neutron transport problems for two adjacent media. In comparison with half-space problems, one must solve two more inhomogeneous Fredholm integral equations. The scheme of the extension to multilayer system is also represented. In using the multigroup method, the series solutions of the Fredholm equations are rapidly convergent, if the energy dependences of the total cross sections in both adjacent media are roughly of the same form.