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Obstacles to new nuclear in Sweden cleared
Aerial view of Sweden’s parliament building, Riksdagshuset, in Stockholm. (Photo: Arild Vågen/Wikipedia)
Sweden’s parliament, the Riksdag, has approved legislative amendments from Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s government that will remove the country’s prohibition on new reactor construction at sites other than Sweden’s three current nuclear plants—Forsmark, Ringhals, and Oskarshamn—and do away with the limitation on the number of simultaneously operating reactors, currently capped at 10.
The amendments enter force on January 1.
“The Riksdag shares the government’s assessment that fossil-free electricity from nuclear power will also continue to play a role of central importance in the Swedish energy mix,” the legislative body said in a statement following the November 29 vote. “The main reasons for this are an expected greater demand for electricity in combination with the fact that fossil fuels have to be phased out, particularly for climate reasons. Nuclear power also contributes to the stable and predictable functioning of the Swedish power system.”
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Functionalization of the Discontinuity Factor in the Albedo-Corrected Parameterized Equivalence Constants (APEC) Method
Woosong Kim, Kyunghoon Lee, Yonghee Kim
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 192 | Number 1 | October 2018 | Pages 1-20
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2018.1497396
The RAPID Fission Matrix Approach to Reactor Core Criticality Calculations
William J. Walters, Nathan J. Roskoff, Alireza Haghighat
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 192 | Number 1 | October 2018 | Pages 21-39
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2018.1497395
A 2D/1D Algorithm for Effective Cross-Section Generation in Fast Reactor Neutronic Transport Calculations
Bastien Faure, Pascal Archier, Jean-François Vidal, Laurent Buiron
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 192 | Number 1 | October 2018 | Pages 40-51
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2018.1480190
Prediction of the Prompt Neutron Multiplicity Distribution ν(A) for 235U(n,f) and 239Pu(n,f) in the Incident Energy Range of Multichance Fission
Anabella Tudora, Franz-Josef Hambsch, Viorel Tobosaru
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 192 | Number 1 | October 2018 | Pages 52-69
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2018.1497394
Analytical Studies of Three-Dimensional Evaluation of Radionuclide Distribution in Zeolite Wastes Through Gamma Scanning of Adsorption Vessels
Taichi Matsumura, Ryuji Nagaishi, Jun-ichi Katakura, Masahide Suzuki
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 192 | Number 1 | October 2018 | Pages 70-79
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2018.1493856
SENSMG: First-Order Sensitivities of Neutron Reaction Rates, Reaction-Rate Ratios, Leakage, keff, and α Using PARTISN
Jeffrey A. Favorite
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 192 | Number 1 | October 2018 | Pages 80-114
Computer Code Abstract | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2018.1471296
Calculating Alpha Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions with a Markov Transition Rate Matrix Monte Carlo Method
Benjamin R. Betzler, Brian C. Kiedrowski, William R. Martin, Forrest B. Brown
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 192 | Number 2 | November 2018 | Pages 115-152
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2018.1497397
Application of Krylov Acceleration Technique in Method of Characteristics–Based Neutron Transport Code
Tanay Mazumdar, Anurag Gupta
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 192 | Number 2 | November 2018 | Pages 153-188
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2018.1499340
The Discontinuous Asymptotic Telegrapher’s Equation (P1) Approximation
Avner P. Cohen, Roy Perry, Shay I. Heizler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 192 | Number 2 | November 2018 | Pages 189-207
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2018.1499339
A Coarse-Mesh Diffusion Synthetic Acceleration Method with Local hp Adaptation for Neutron Transport Calculations
Tseelmaa Byambaakhuu, Dean Wang, Sicong Xiao
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 192 | Number 2 | November 2018 | Pages 208-217
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2018.1499338
Improved Accuracy in the 2-D/1-D Method with Anisotropic Transverse Leakage and Cross-Section Homogenization
Michael Jarrett, Brendan Kochunas, Edward Larsen, Thomas Downar
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 192 | Number 3 | December 2018 | Pages 219-239
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2018.1507186
Flux Region Assignment Method Using Ray Trace Information for the Method of Characteristics to Improve Cache Efficiency
Akio Yamamoto, Akinori Giho, Tomohiro Endo
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 192 | Number 3 | December 2018 | Pages 240-253
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2018.1501978
Contributon-Based Mesh-Reduction Methodology for Hybrid Deterministic-Stochastic Particle Transport Simulations Using Block-Structured Grids
Timothy Flaspoehler, Bojan Petrovic
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 192 | Number 3 | December 2018 | Pages 254-274
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2018.1507185
Transient Simulations of CPR1000 Nuclear Power Plant Implementing Advanced Mechanical Shim Control System
Shifa Wu, Jiashuang Wan, Hongbing Song, Xinyu Wei, Fuyu Zhao, Shripad Revankar
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 192 | Number 3 | December 2018 | Pages 275-297
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2018.1501976
Three Loading Patterns for 99Tc Transmutation in PWR Burnable Poison Rods
Bin Liu, Juan Fu, Xuefeng Lyu, Wenqiang Li, Jinsheng Han
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 192 | Number 3 | December 2018 | Pages 298-310
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2018.1509570
Improvements of the Embedded Self-Shielding Method with Pseudo-Resonant Isotope Model on the Multifuel Lattice System
Qian Zhang, Qiang Zhao, Zhijian Zhang, Liang Liang, Won Sik Yang, Hongchun Wu, Liangzhi Cao
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 192 | Number 3 | December 2018 | Pages 311-327
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2018.1501977