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2025 ANS Annual Conference
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Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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AI and productivity growth
Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
This month’s issue of Nuclear News focuses on supply and demand. The “supply” part of the story highlights nuclear’s continued success in providing electricity to the grid more than 90 percent of the time, while the “demand” part explores the seemingly insatiable appetite of hyperscale data centers for steady, carbon-free energy.
Technically, we are in the second year of our AI epiphany, the collective realization that Big Tech’s energy demands are so large that they cannot be met without a historic build-out of new generation capacity. Yet the enormity of it all still seems hard to grasp.
or the better part of two decades, U.S. electricity demand has been flat. Sure, we’ve seen annual fluctuations that correlate with weather patterns and the overall domestic economic performance, but the gigawatt-hours of electricity America consumed in 2021 are almost identical to our 2007 numbers.
Gustavo A. Lorensi, Leonardo R. C. Moraes, Richard Vasques, Esequia Sauter, Fábio S. de Azevedo
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 199 | Number 1 | April 2025 | Pages S235-S248
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2342498
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Over time, several methods were developed to deal with neutral particle transport problems. The interest in these problems is related to their wide range of applications, from neutron transport and heat transfer in nuclear reactors to radiative transfer in atmospheric clouds. Unlike the discrete ordinates or discrete ordinates–like methods, integral methods do not require discretization of angular variables. Instead, angular variables are completely eliminated by an integration procedure over the solid angle, which allows elimination of the ray effect. That said, this paper presents a new approach to estimate the scalar flux in two-dimensional fixed-source neutron transport problems in a heterogeneous medium, considering isotropic scattering and vacuum and reflective boundary conditions. Here, the Nyström method is combined with the singularity-subtraction technique to present an integral formulation for the scalar flux in a mesh grid over all regions of the domain. The iterative method of the Neumann series is used as an alternative to direct methods to solve the resulting system of equations generated from the domain discretization. Numerical results are given to verify the offered method.