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Nuclear Energy Strategy announced at CNA2026
At the Canadian Nuclear Association Conference (CNA2026) in Ottawa, Ontario, on April 29, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Tim Hodgson announced that Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) is developing a new Nuclear Energy Strategy for the country. The strategy, which is slated to be released by the end of this year, will be based on four objectives: 1) enabling new nuclear builds across Canada, 2) being a global supplier and exporter of nuclear technology and services, 3) expanding uranium production and nuclear fuel opportunities, and 4) developing new Canadian nuclear innovations, including in both fission and fusion technologies.
E. Gelbard, J. Davis, J. Pearson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 5 | Number 1 | January 1959 | Pages 36-44
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE59-A27327
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The spherical harmonics approximation of Ith order, applied to the transport equation in slab geometry, leads to 2l + 1 coupled first order differential equations. These may be transformed into (2l + 1)/2 second order differential equations similar, in form, to the few-group diffusion equations, and amenable to solution by well-known iterative techniques. The double-Pl equations of Yvon may be manipulated and solved in the same manner. This article describes an IBM 704 code which makes use of such a method. Some of the results obtained with the code are discussed, and machine times for typical problems are compared with times required to solve the same problem by the discrete ordinate methods.