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NRC reviewing 2 unplanned shutdowns at South Texas Project
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission began a special inspection last week at South Texas Project nuclear power plant into two incidents at the site, which led to separate, unplanned shutdowns of both Units 1 and 2.
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.