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Growth beyond megawatts
Hash Hashemianpresident@ans.org
When talking about growth in the nuclear sector, there can be a somewhat myopic focus on increasing capacity from year to year. Certainly, we all feel a degree of excitement when new projects are announced, and such announcements are undoubtedly a reflection of growth in the field, but it’s important to keep in mind that growth in nuclear has many metrics and takes many forms.
Nuclear growth—beyond megawatts—also takes the form of increasing international engagement. That engagement looks like newcomer countries building their nuclear sectors for the first time. It also looks like countries with established nuclear sectors deepening their connections and collaborations. This is one of the reasons I have been focused throughout my presidency on bringing more international members and organizations into the fold of the American Nuclear Society.
Patrick F. O’Rourke, Scott D. Ramsey, Brian A. Temple
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 196 | Number 8 | August 2022 | Pages 943-981
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2035180
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In this work, we apply Lie Group Theory (LGT) to aid in solving and understanding equations arising from the Forward Master Equation formulation for the neutron number distribution in a zero-dimensional setting. In particular, we focus our LGT study on a first-order hyperbolic partial differential equation satisfied by the probability generating function. We show the connection between solutions to the symmetry determining equations with established analytical solutions given by Bell and by Prinja and Souto. We derive global transformations for isolated neutron fission chains as well as neutron sources and provide a physical interpretation of the results throughout.