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Long-term strategy calls for up to 10 new reactors in Canada
Canada has launched a Nuclear Energy Strategy, a long-term vision of its nuclear power potential that includes plans to deploy up to 10 new large-scale reactors in the country by 2040.
The June 22 announcement, along with ongoing projects at Darlington and Bruce Power, further confirm Canada's ambitions to expand its nuclear power presence not just domestically but also abroad. Four pillars stand at the heart of the country’s Nuclear Energy Strategy: new nuclear builds in Canada, maintaining its status as a top nuclear supplier and exporter, expanding uranium production, and continuing nuclear fission and fusion innovations.
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
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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.