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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.
Gert Van den Eynde, Robert Beauwens, Ernest Mund
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 155 | Number 2 | February 2007 | Pages 300-309
Technical Paper | Mathematics and Computation, Supercomputing, Reactor Physics and Nuclear and Biological Applications | doi.org/10.13182/NSE07-A2664
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The boundary source method is an integral method introduced in the late 1960s for solving one-dimensional one-velocity transport problems arising in cell calculations. This method was further developed in various ways since that period and found to be of particular interest for recent applications to nodal transport codes. We have developed a boundary source code in plane geometry that allows for anisotropic scattering of arbitrary high order, and it is the purpose of this paper to display the extreme accuracy of this code, showing hereby that the boundary source method is probably the most accurate transport solution method available today for solving piecewise homogeneous transport problems.