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Report: New recommendations for nuclear waste
Today, a bipartisan group of experts including energy consultant Lake Barrett and former NRC chair Allison Macfarlane have published a report titled The Path Forward for Nuclear Waste in the U.S.
The report recommends a new solution for managing domestic nuclear waste—one that centers around the foundation of an independent corporation led by reactor owners. Responsibility for waste management transport, storage, and disposal would be managed by this corporation rather than the Department of Energy.
Ethan Smith, Ilham Variansyah, Ryan McClarren
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 8 | August 2023 | Pages 1769-1778
Technical papers from: PHYSOR 2022 | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2142025
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
We present a new approach to calculating time eigenvalues of the neutron transport operator (also known as eigenvalues) by extending the dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) to allow for nonuniform time steps. The new method, called variable dynamic mode decomposition (VDMD), is shown to be accurate when computing eigenvalues for systems that were infeasible with DMD due to a large separation in timescales (such as those that occur in delayed supercritical systems). The eigenvalues of an infinite medium neutron transport problem with delayed neutrons, and consequently having multiple, very different relevant timescales, are computed. Furthermore, VDMD is shown to be of similar accuracy to the original DMD approach when computing eigenvalues in other systems where the previously studied DMD approach can be used.