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September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Powering the future: How the DOE is fueling nuclear fuel cycle research and development
As global interest in nuclear energy surges, the United States must remain at the forefront of research and development to ensure national energy security, advance nuclear technologies, and promote international cooperation on safety and nonproliferation. A crucial step in achieving this is analyzing how funding and resources are allocated to better understand how to direct future research and development. The Department of Energy has spearheaded this effort by funding hundreds of research projects across the country through the Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP). This initiative has empowered dozens of universities to collaborate toward a nuclear-friendly future.
Hiroshi Sekimoto
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 68 | Number 3 | December 1978 | Pages 351-356
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27312
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A new method is proposed to unfold a neutron spectrum from measured activities with a guess shape for the spectrum. This method minimizes the weighted sum of the deviations from the guess shape and the measured activities and optimizes the scaling factor of the spectrum at the same time. Unlike most conventional methods, it does not need iterations, but instead directly obtains an unfolded spectrum by solving a positive definite matrix, whose size is equal to the number of the measured activities. Both analytical and numerical comparisons with some conventional methods are also presented.