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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.
Thomas E. Booth
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 156 | Number 3 | July 2007 | Pages 403-407
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE07-A2707
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A method to provide an unbiased Monte Carlo estimate of the reciprocal of an integral is described. In Monte Carlo transport calculations, one often uses a single sample as an estimate of an integral. This paper shows that a similar situation exists with respect to a single sample for an unbiased estimate of the reciprocal of an integral. If an appropriate approximation to the integrand is known, then obtaining a single unbiased estimate of the reciprocal of an integral will not be much more time consuming than obtaining a single unbiased estimate of the integral itself.