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DOE issues new NEPA rule and procedures—and accelerates DOME reactor testing
Meeting a deadline set in President Trump’s May 23 executive order “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy,” the DOE on June 30 updated information on its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rulemaking and implementation procedures and published on its website an interim final rule that rescinds existing regulations alongside new implementing procedures.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 160 | Number 1 | September 2008 | Pages 1-22
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE160-01
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Zero-variance Monte Carlo schemes have been discussed in the literature at several places. Taking a fresh look, it turns out that some authors made essential errors in their derivation and conclusions. We will prove that for a given estimator there is only one zero-variance scheme possible with a unique biasing of the source function and the transition and collision kernels. A practical demonstration of a zero-variance scheme will be shown numerically for a two-group homogeneous slab system treated by the two-direction transport model, which provides an analytical solution for the particle flux and adjoint functions.