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Spent fuel recycling and conditioning topic of U.S.-Japan meeting
Officials with the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management discussed spent nuclear fuel recycling and conditioning with counterparts from Japan during the 13th U.S.-Japan Technical Meeting of the Civil Nuclear Energy Research and Development Working Group, held recently in Santa Fe, N.M.
William Bennett, Ryan G. McClarren
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 9 | September 2023 | Pages 2270-2300
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2199783
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The set of benchmark solutions used in the thermal radiative transfer community suffers some coverage gaps, in particular, nonlinear, nonequilibrium problems. Also, there are no nonequilibrium, optically thick benchmarks. These shortcomings motivated the development of a numerical method free from the requirement of linearity and easily able to converge on smooth optically thick problems, i.e., a moving mesh Discontinuous Galerkin framework that utilizes an uncollided source treatment. Having already proven this method on time-dependent scattering transport problems, we present here solutions to nonequilibrium thermal radiative transfer problems for familiar linearized systems together with more physical nonlinear systems in both optically thin and thick regimes, including both the full transport and the / solution. Geometric convergence is observed for smooth sources at all times and some nonsmooth sources at late times when there is local equilibrium. Also, accurate solutions are achieved for step sources when the solution is not smooth.