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House E&C members question the DOE
As work progresses on the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program, which will progress through DOE authorization rather than Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing, three members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce have sent a critical letter to Energy Secretary Chris Wright.
The letter demands “information about the DOE and its employees’ dealings with the NRC and its staff” and expresses concern that DOE staff has “broken the firewall” between the departments.
Irina Potapenko, Stanislav Karpov
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 9 | September 2023 | Pages 2450-2458
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2189511
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The paper is devoted to the numerical study of solutions to the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau kinetic equations for distribution functions with typical length such that , where stands for the Debye radius. It is also assumed that the Knudsen number , where denotes the mean free path of electrons. We use the standard model of plasma of electrons with a spatially homogeneous neutralizing background of motionless heavy ions. We study numerically the one-dimensional (1D) in space kinetic equation with the two-dimensional in velocity space (in three-dimensional spherical coordinates with axial symmetry) Landau collisional operator for small and different . The numerical results are presented and compared with appropriate solutions obtained earlier for the simplified BGK model. The results confirm numerically the existence of high-frequency oscillations of the electric field, which slowly decline due to collisions.