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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.
R. Le Tellier, A. Hébert
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 158 | Number 1 | January 2008 | Pages 28-39
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE08-A2736
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Necessary and sufficient constraints are derived for the solid angle quadrature of a ray-tracing procedure to unconditionally ensure the particle conservation when anisotropic scattering is considered. As an application of this result, a discussion on the choice of a polar quadrature in two-dimensional (2-D) calculations with the method of characteristics is provided. A new quadrature based on the derived constraints is introduced and compared with other optimized quadratures on a simple 2-D benchmark.