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Task force charts growing interest in civilian maritime nuclear applications
Readers of Nuclear News will have heard of historical applications of civilian maritime nuclear power, like the merchant ship NS Savannah and the USS Sturgis floating power plant. With a few exceptions there has been little action in this area for over 50 years, and there are plenty of reasons and opinions as to why, but over the last few years the dramatic increase in interest from the maritime industry and its stakeholders has been undeniable.
Pavel M. Bokov, Danniell Botes, Rian H. Prinsloo, Djordje I. Tomašević
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 2 | February 2023 | Pages 308-332
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2108654
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In this paper, we formulate a new flux reconstruction method based on the High Dimensional Model Representation (HDMR) of the nodal flux shape. The method requires the conventional nodal parameters obtained as a result of the transverse-integration nodal solution procedure as well as corner values calculated by a combination of finite-volume and finite-difference approximations. The proposed flux reconstruction procedure is applicable to rectangular nodes and more than two energy groups. The flux reconstruction method is applied to a number of homogeneous and heterogeneous test problems in order to evaluate its accuracy.