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Oklo signs MOU to partner with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power
Oklo cofounder and CEO Jacob DeWitte and KHNP CEO Joo-ho Whang following the virtual signing of an MOU. (Source: Oklo)
Oklo announced last week that it hopes to expand development and global deployment of its advanced nuclear technology through a new partnership with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power.
The memorandum of understanding includes plans for the companies to advance standard design development and global deployment of Oklo’s planned Aurora Powerhouse, a microreactor that would generate 15 MW and be scalable to 50 MWe. Oklo said each unit can operate for 10 years or longer before refueling.
Oklo and KHNP plan to cooperate on early-stage project development, including manufacturability assessments and planning of major equipment, supply chain development for balance-of-plant systems, and constructability assessments and planning.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 47 | Number 3 | March 1972 | Pages 275-289
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22414
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A new hybrid method was developed for the solution of the one-dimensional time-dependent diffusion equation in four energy and four delayed-neutron groups. Using this method it is possible to reduce the cost per problem solved by an order of magnitude compared with commonly used digital methods. The solution is based on discretizing the multigroup diffusion equation with respect to the spatial variable while leaving the time variable continuous. The simple coupled time-dependent differential equations so obtained are integrated continuously and in parallel for each of the reactor regions. The regional boundary values are updated from iteration to iteration until convergence is obtained. Two examples are presented in which the hybrid and digital solutions are compared for a fast plutonium oxide fueled reactor. The agreement between the hybrid and digital solution is fairly good.