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Nano Nuclear wins Air Force contract for Kronos MMR
New York City–based advanced nuclear technology developer Nano Nuclear Energy has been awarded a Direct-to-Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract for its Kronos micro modular reactor (MMR) by AFWERX, the innovation and venture arm of the U.S. Air Force. The contract calls for AFWERX, with the 11th Civil Engineering Squadron, to explore the feasibility of deploying the Kronos MMR Energy System at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling (JBAB) in Washington, D.C.
Martin Frank, Jonas Kusch, Thomas Camminady, Cory D. Hauck
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 194 | Number 11 | November 2020 | Pages 971-988
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2020.1730665
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Solving the radiative transfer equation with the discrete ordinates (S) method leads to a nonphysical imprint of the chosen quadrature set on the solution. To mitigate these so-called ray effects, we propose a modification of the S method that we call artificial scattering S (as-S). The method adds an artificial forward-peaked scattering operator that generates angular diffusion to the solution and thereby mitigates ray effects. Similar to artificial viscosity for spatial discretizations, the additional term vanishes as the number of ordinates approaches infinity. Our method allows an efficient implementation of explicit and implicit time integration according to standard S solver technology. For two test cases, we demonstrate a significant reduction of error for the as-S method when compared to the standard S method, both for explicit and implicit computations. Furthermore, we show that a prescribed numerical precision can be reached with less memory due to the reduction in the number of ordinates.