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Here’s an easy way to make aging U.S. power reactors look relatively youthful: Compare them (average age: 43) with the nation’s university research reactors. The 25 operating today have been licensed for an average of about 58 years.
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Collision probabilities in spherical geometry are decomposed into a sum of Meijer's G functions, which are subsequently identified as the product of an exponential and a polynomial of finite degree and are hence easily computed. The series is then summed analytically, and the usual transport kernel for spherical geometry—the exponential integral—appears. A new form of the integral transport equation for the scalar flux is thus found.