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NRC v. Texas: Supreme Court weighs challenge to NRC authority in spent fuel storage case
The State of Texas has not one but two ongoing federal court challenges to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that could, if successful, turn decades of NRC regulations, precedent, and case law on its head.
John N. Hamawi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 11 | Number 1 | May 1971 | Pages 84-88
Technical Paper | Radioisotope | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A30904
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Systems of linear differential equations of the type occurring in the theory of radioactive transformations are normally solved by direct integration. For certain complex systems solutions may contain a formidable number of terms and therefore would be extremely laborious to derive. This paper presents a more practical method for solving such systems of equations. By means of a recurrence formula the method provides simple, compact, readily derivable expressions, and considerably reduces the length of numerical computation. The method is well suited for use with digital computers.
