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No impact from Savannah River radioactive wasps
The news is abuzz with recent news stories about four radioactive wasp nests found at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The site has been undergoing cleanup operations since the 1990s related to the production of plutonium and tritium for defense purposes during the Cold War. Cleanup activities are expected to continue into the 2060s.
Mankit Ray Yeung, Guo Bing Jiang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 97 | Number 3 | March 1992 | Pages 352-361
Technical Paper | Reactor Operation | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34643
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An efficient personal computer-based threedimensional reactor core model TRIDA is developed to simulate the dynamics of the reactor for simulator applications. A fast running matrix factorization technique is used to solve the coupled nodal kinetics equations. Calculations for several off-normal and highly asymmetric transients are performed, and some of the results are compared with those of the Arkansas Nuclear One Unit 2 Final Safety Analysis Report. In addition, the computation time of the matrix factorization technique is compared with those of the Gaussian elimination and Jacobi iterative techniques. Results of comparisons are also given.