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Operations & Power
Members focus on the dissemination of knowledge and information in the area of power reactors with particular application to the production of electric power and process heat. The division sponsors meetings on the coverage of applied nuclear science and engineering as related to power plants, non-power reactors, and other nuclear facilities. It encourages and assists with the dissemination of knowledge pertinent to the safe and efficient operation of nuclear facilities through professional staff development, information exchange, and supporting the generation of viable solutions to current issues.
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2027 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
October 31–November 4, 2027
Washington, DC|The Westin Washington, DC Downtown
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The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Drones fly in to inspect waste tanks at Savannah River Site
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management will soon, for the first time, begin using drones to internally inspect radioactive liquid waste tanks at the department’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Inspections were previously done using magnetic wall-crawling robots.
Richard Sanchez, Simone Santandrea
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 183 | Number 2 | June 2016 | Pages 196-213
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE15-78
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A conservative linear surface approximation (CLS) has been recently introduced to speed up the method of characteristics in unstructured meshes. In this work, we present an analysis of the convergence of the CLS in unstructured geometries, which shows that, under optimal conditions, the method converges quadratically with the size of the regions, while the classical step characteristics approximation converges linearly. The predicted convergence rates apply only to a homogeneous convex domain with a regular boundary and regular sources and can be viewed as upper bounds for realistic heterogeneous cases. We also analyze the errors induced by the numerical implementation of the step and CLS approximations and show their impact in the final error. Numerical calculations illustrate the convergence rates.