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Organized to promote the advancement of knowledge in the use of nuclear science and technologies in the aerospace application. Specialized nuclear-based technologies and applications are needed to advance the state-of-the-art in aerospace design, engineering and operations to explore planetary bodies in our solar system and beyond, plus enhance the safety of air travel, especially high speed air travel. Areas of interest will include but are not limited to the creation of nuclear-based power and propulsion systems, multifunctional materials to protect humans and electronic components from atmospheric, space, and nuclear power system radiation, human factor strategies for the safety and reliable operation of nuclear power and propulsion plants by non-specialized personnel and more.
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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2023)
February 6–9, 2023
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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Registration is open for NRC’s RIC
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has opened registration for its 35th annual Regulatory Information Conference (RIC 2023) The conference, themed “Navigating the Nuclear Future,” will be held March 14–16 in North Bethesda, Md., and will be the first in-person RIC since 2019, although the event will also be accessible virtually.
Register now. Registration, which is required to attend, can be completed by filling out the conference registration online form. The conference is free to the public.
Tseelmaa Byambaakhuu, Dean Wang, Sicong Xiao
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 192 | Number 2 | November 2018 | Pages 208-217
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2018.1499338
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
We present a local adaptive diffusion synthetic acceleration (DSA) method for neutron transport calculations. This new DSA method, called DG-DSA, solves the diffusion equation on a coarse mesh using the interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods. We investigate various numerical aspects of the DG-DSA method such as convergence performance and local adaptation. We demonstrate that our DG-DSA method can effectively and efficiently accelerate transport source iterations.
