ANS is committed to advancing, fostering, and promoting the development and application of nuclear sciences and technologies to benefit society.
Explore the many uses for nuclear science and its impact on energy, the environment, healthcare, food, and more.
Explore membership for yourself or for your organization.
Conference Spotlight
2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
Latest Magazine Issues
Oct 2025
Jul 2025
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
November 2025
Nuclear Technology
Fusion Science and Technology
Latest News
House, Senate bills aim to improve nuclear decommissioning and waste disposal
Two bills were introduced in the last several weeks aiming to address nuclear power at the end of life—decommissioning plants and recycling used fuel.
Dong H. Nguyen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 55 | Number 3 | November 1974 | Pages 307-319
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23457
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Transient solutions of a nonlinear nuclear reactor with various temperature-dependent feedbacks are obtained by the modified Newton-Raphson-Kantorovich’s iterative technique. The difference between the first and higher iterates is shown explicitly to be negligible at all times, so that the first iterate represents well the entire solution. It is also shown that the spatial distribution of the neutron flux during transience is dominated by the fundamental mode and that the negligible difference between the second and the first iterates is composed of higher harmonics.—, The maximum flux, the time at which it occurs, and the rate of flux increase are all readily obtained from the solutions. For an increase in reactor buckling and for a positive initial flux disturbance, the neutron flux in a reactor with Newtonian or prompt feedback reaches a finite asymptotic value, whereas that of an adiabatic reactor first rises, then drops off. However, for the same initial conditions, the maximum flux attained in an adiabatic reactor is several fold higher than that of a reactor with Newtonian or prompt feedback.