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Leading the charge: INL’s role in advancing HALEU production
Idaho National Laboratory is playing a key role in helping the U.S. Department of Energy meet near-term needs by recovering HALEU from federal inventories, providing critical support to help lay the foundation for a future commercial HALEU supply chain. INL also supports coordination of broader DOE efforts, from material recovery at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to commercial enrichment initiatives.
Bingjing Su, G. C. Pomraning
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 120 | Number 2 | June 1995 | Pages 75-90
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE95-A24109
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The problem of describing particle transport through a Markovian stochastic mixture of two immiscible materials is generally approximated by the so-called Levermore model, consisting of two coupled transport equations. In this paper, the P2 diffusive equations and the associated boundary conditions for this Levermore model are derived in planar geometry by using a variational principle, and numerical results comparing P2, P1, and S16 (benchmark) calculations are presented. These results demonstrate that the P2 equations are considerably more accurate than the P1 equations away from boundary layers. An asymptotic diffusion approximation to this model is also explored with several different boundary conditions, and the overall conclusion is that the asymptotic diffusion treatment is in general inferior to P2 theory, and its superiority over P1 theory is not overwhelming and not consistent.