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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
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Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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EnergySolutions to help explore advanced reactor development in Utah
Utah-based waste management company EnergySolutions announced that it has signed a memorandum of understating with the Intermountain Power Agency and the state of Utah to explore the development of advanced nuclear power generation at the Intermountain Power Project (IPP) site near Delta, Utah.
Akio Yamamoto, Tomohiro Endo, Satoshi Takeda, Hiroki Koike, Kazuya Yamaji, Koji Asano
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 198 | Number 5 | May 2024 | Pages 981-992
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2230414
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A deterministic transport calculation method is proposed for the treatment of dispersed fuel particles in a fuel compact/fuel pebble of a typical high-temperature gas-cooled reactor fuel. The random distribution of fuel particles was considered using the statistical geometry (STG) method, which is widely used in the Monte Carlo method. A long-ray trace, which represents a neutron flight path, was considered, and the segment lengths and material distributions on the ray trace were randomly sampled using STG. Then a conventional transport sweep, as used in the method of characteristics, was performed along the ray trace. The proposed deterministic statistical geometry (DSTG) method can calculate the flux spatial distribution in a heterogeneous geometry containing randomly dispersed fuel particles and the surrounding graphite matrix, which is consistent with the STG in a Monte Carlo method. The validity of the DSTG method was confirmed through sensitivity calculations and comparisons with a multigroup Monte Carlo method that utilizes STG. The proposed method can be used for the homogenization of heterogeneous structures inside a fuel compact or fuel pebble as an alternative to conventional deterministic unit cell calculations that consider fuel particles and the surrounding matrix in high-temperature gas-cooled reactor fuels.