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Maine Maritime Academy to offer nuclear engineering technology major
The Maine Maritime Academy (MMA) is set to become the first maritime academy in the United States to offer a major in nuclear engineering technology. The college characterized it as “an important step in addressing workforce needs and advancing clean energy solutions” in a LinkedIn post announcing the major.
Jeffery D. Densmore
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 191 | Number 3 | September 2018 | Pages 231-247
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2018.1466542
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
We develop an analytic solution for time-dependent neutron transport with delayed neutrons using the singular eigenfunction expansion method. Our approach is based on a technique for solving time-dependent neutron-transport problems without delayed neutrons (Case and Zweifel, Linear Transport Theory, Addison-Wesley, 1967), which we effectively generalize to include the presence of delayed-neutron precursors. In particular, we obtain eigenfunctions composed of two parts: one corresponding to the neutron angular flux and one corresponding to the delayed-neutron precursor concentration. We further demonstrate that these eigenfunctions are complete. We also provide numerical results for an example problem.