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
2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
Latest Magazine Issues
Jul 2026
Jan 2026
2026
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
September 2026
Nuclear Technology
August 2026
Fusion Science and Technology
Latest News
In transition: Commercializing fusion power
Commercial fusion power is closer than ever. There are now around 30 U.S. fusion companies, several of which claim to be on track to connect to the grid as early as the 2030s.
Tokamak and laser inertial confinement approaches benefit from decades of research at facilities such as the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and ITER, with alternative concepts including stellarator, magnetic mirror, and Z-pinch confinement also making notable progress as private and government funding for fusion increases.
Hikaru Hiruta, Dmitriy Y. Anistratov
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 154 | Number 3 | November 2006 | Pages 328-352
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE06-A2637
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In this paper, we develop a homogenization methodology for the two-dimensional low-order quasi-diffusion equations for full-core reactor calculations that is based on a family of spatially consistent coarse-mesh discretization methods. The coarse-mesh solution generated by these methods preserves a number of spatial moments of the fine-mesh transport solution over each assembly. The proposed method reproduces accurately the complicated large-scale behavior of the transport solution within assemblies. To demonstrate the performance of the developed methodology, we present the numerical results of several test problems that simulate mixed-oxide-uranium and assembly-reflector interfacial effects.