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DOE launches UPRISE to boost nuclear capacity
The Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy has launched a new initiative to meet the government’s goal of increasing U.S. nuclear energy capacity by boosting the power output of existing nuclear reactors through uprates and restarts and by completing stalled reactor projects.
UPRISE, the Utility Power Reactor Incremental Scaling Effort, managed by Idaho National Laboratory, is to “deliver immediate results that will accelerate nuclear power growth and foster innovation to address the nation’s urgent energy needs,” DOE-NE said in its announcement.
Alain Hébert
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 154 | Number 2 | October 2006 | Pages 134-173
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE06-A2623
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The occurrence of superconvergence in various first-order spherical harmonics approximations of the neutral particle transport equation is being investigated. Superconvergence refers to the added accuracy gained in evaluating the solution of the transport equation at optimally chosen base points of the finite element trial functions. It has been observed that this phenomenon is happening when primal and dual discretizations in space and angle lead to the same numerical result, a property also referred as primal-dual agreement. A systematic search is presented for primal-dual agreement on one-dimensional slab, tube, and spherical geometries and on Cartesian two-dimensional geometries based on complete and simplified Pn approximations. Primal-dual agreement was successfully obtained in all Cartesian geometries but not in tube and spherical geometries, due to the angular redistribution term.