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RIC session focuses on interagency collaboration
Attendees at last week’s 2026 Regulatory Information Conference, hosted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, saw extensive discussion of new reactor technologies, uprates, fusion, multiunit deployments, supply chain, and much more.
With the industry in a state of rapid evolution, there was much to discuss. Connected to all these topics was one central theme: the ongoing changes at the NRC. With massively shortened timelines, the ADVANCE Act and Executive Order 14300, and new interagency collaboration and authorization pathways in mind, speakers spent much of the RIC exploring what the road ahead looks like for the NRC.
Gregory G. Davidson, Todd S. Palmer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 159 | Number 3 | July 2008 | Pages 242-255
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE159-242
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In 1975, Wachspress developed basis functions that can be constructed upon very general zone shapes, including convex polygons and polyhedra, as well as certain zone shapes with curved sides and faces. Additionally, Adams has recently shown that weight functions with certain properties will produce solutions with full resolution, meaning that they are capable of producing physically meaningful solutions in the diffusive limit. Wachspress rational functions (WRFs) possess these necessary properties. Here, we present methods to construct and integrate WRFs on quadrilaterals. We also present an asymptotic analysis of a discontinuous finite element discretization on quadrilaterals, and we present numerical results.