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Diversification and the common ground
Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
Who would have thought, just a few years ago, that we would see so many long-standing barriers to new nuclear development falling like dominoes? Public opinion, policy, regulatory reform, finance and investment, design maturity, nuclear fuel enrichment, and fuel fabrication capacity have all advanced with remarkable speed in the United States.
Conventional wisdom holds that the most effective way to scale up the nuclear supply chain is to do so strategically, matching investments to the needs of reactor developers.
Vincenzo Molinari, Domiziano Mostacci, Francesco Teodori
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 9 | September 2023 | Pages 2446-2449
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2194199
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Starting from the Fermi-Dirac distribution fuunction, Kinetic Theory prescriptions are applied to express number density and pressure as integrals, which are then solved for nonvanishing temperature. The results are then combined to arrive at an equation of state, given in closed form, yielding pressure as a function of number density.