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Texas A&M welcomes uranium conversion research
The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) has signed a research agreement with Quantum Leap Energy (QLE) “to advance and de-risk the commercial production of high-purity uranium hexafluoride (UF6).”
QLE is an Austin, Texas–based subsidiary of ASP Isotopes (ASPI), which is developing an isotope enrichment platform for applications in nuclear energy, nuclear medicine, and semiconductors. QLE specializes in the uranium conversion step of the nuclear fuel cycle—the conversion of yellowcake uranium concentrate (U3O8) into UF6 prior to enrichment.
Benoit Forget
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 200 | Number 9 | September 2026 | Pages 1992-2002
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2567813
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This paper presents an efficient Monte Carlo mode for simulating subcritical systems with external sources. While solving these systems as a fixed source is possible, the length of the histories grows significantly as the system nears criticality, making run time significant. Instead, a hybrid method is proposed that leverages the traditional eigensolver while including elements of the external source. The method builds on prior work,but proposes an approach that maintains the size of the source bank and also provides a natural way of scaling tallies with the true multiplication factor. The method is demonstrated on a subcritical sphere with varying point source position and energy spectrum, as well as an approach to criticality problem. The results demonstrate good agreement with the fixed-source mode, with much improved particle tracking rates for near-critical problems.