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On North Carolina's ratification of Senate Bill 266
I have been a North Carolinian for 62 years and involved in the state’s nuclear energy industry from my high school days to today. I have seen firsthand how North Carolina has flourished. This growth has been due to the state’s enterprising people and strong leaders. Clean, competitive, and always-on nuclear power has also played an important role.
Meysam Ghaderi Mazaher, Ali Akbar Salehi, Naser Vosoughi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 196 | Number 4 | April 2022 | Pages 395-408
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2021.1989932
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In this paper, a simpler approach compared to the existing approaches is developed to analyze nuclear reactor dynamics based on the explicit Monte Carlo method. A new population control method is also introduced to prevent neutron population growth and consequent computer memory shortages, which also increases simulation speed. The scheme is applied for time-dependent particle tracking in three-dimensional arbitrary geometries in the presence of feedbacks through a code named MCSP-Explicit. Changes in material density, as well as geometry dimensions, are also considered during simulation. MCSP-Explicit can be run with either continuous or multigroup data libraries, and it is further boosted by parallel processing to speed up simulations. A number of benchmark problems are studied at the end to evaluate the performance of the proposed approach in various situations.