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Fusion office bill introduced in line with DOE reorganization plan
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Sens. Alex Padilla (D., Calif.) and John Cornyn (R., Texas) have introduced bipartisan legislation to formally establish the Office of Fusion at the Department of Energy. This move seeks to codify one of the many changes put forward by the recent internal reorganization plan for offices at the DOE.
Companion legislation has been introduced in the House of Representatives by Reps. Don Beyer (D., Va.) and Jay Obernolte (R., Calif.), who are cochairs of the House Fusion Energy Caucus.
Details: According to Obernolte, “Congress must provide clear direction and a coordinated federal strategy to move fusion from the lab to the grid, and this legislation does exactly that.”
Indrajeet Singh, S. B. Degweker, Amod Kishore Mallick, Anurag Gupta
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 193 | Number 8 | August 2019 | Pages 868-883
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2019.1576453
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In a recent paper, we described the development of a method for calculating exact collision probabilities between different regions (namely, fuel kernels, graphite matrix, moderator, and coolant) of a lattice cell of a high temperature reactor (HTR) of the pebble bed variety. The method was shown to adequately represent the double heterogeneity in such reactors. In the present paper, we use some of the results obtained in that paper to construct a fast Monte Carlo algorithm for treatment of HTRs. This paper discusses the theoretical basis of the Monte Carlo algorithm, its implementation for the case of a lattice cell with the energy variable treated using a multigroup library, and results obtained. The method can be easily extended to full-core calculations using point cross-section data.