The future development and acceptance of light water reactors in the U.S.

This report summarizes a two-year effort by the M.I.T. Light Water Reactor Study Group to assess the institutional, regulatory, technical, and economic factors influencing the development and deployment of LWR technology. The nuclear industry is confronted by a mix of problems which, if not addressed, may soon eliminate LWRs as a practical source of electric energy. The Study Group found that technical developments could improve nuclear plant capacity factors by 10 percent; furthermore, substantial economic benefits are possible through better use of existing technology, further technological improvements, and various financing schemes. However, the most pronounced problems are institutional and social, not technical and economic. Regulatory and institutional problems in licensing, constructing, and operating nuclear plants have created such uncertainty in the electric utility sector that the economic and environmental advantages of LWRs are seriously jeopardized. Regulatory constraints, unpredictability of government policy, unnecessary construction delays, and the resultant difficulty in obtaining the large-scale financing needed for new plant construction all discourage the electric utility sector from making long-term commitments to nuclear power. In the absence of a concerted government attempt to resolve these and other problems, public mistrust and legal intervention in the nuclear industry grow increasingly serious. Thus, the technical and economic improvements that could benefit the industry will be negated unless the government, the industrial sector, the electric utilities, and the public address the regulatory and institutional problems that are threatening to cripple the industry."This work was prepared as an account of work sponsored by the United States Government.

Proceedings of the ICNC `91 International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety 9-13 September 1991 in Oxford, United Kingdom

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Assessment of the experimental data on the volatility of HT-9 and PCA fusion reactor materials

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Analysis of the Falcon CT-6 experiment

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Neutron transport in WIMS by the characteristics method

The electron Volt spectrometer (eVS) is an inverse geometry filter difference spectrometer that has been optimised to measure the single atom properties of condensed matter systems using a technique known as neutron compton scattering (NCS) or deep inelastic neutron scattering (DINS). The spectrometer utilises the high flux of epithermal neutrons that are produced by the ISIS neutron spallation source enabling the direct measurement of atomic momentum distributions and ground state kinetic energies. In this paper the procedure that is used to calibrate the spectrometer is described . This includes details of the method used to determine detector positions and neutron flight path lengths as well as the determination of the instrument resolution. Examples of measurements on 3 different samples are shown, ZrH_2, "4He and Sn which show the self-consistency of the calibration procedure. (author)SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:9091.900(AEA-RS 5572) / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo

Neutron transport in WIMS by the characteristic method

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Post-test analysis of Falcon tests FAL-19 and FAL-20 using the contain code

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The displacement of atoms in low Z compounds

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The application of diverse transfer calculations to detect erroneous inputs and systematic errors

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A laboratory course in reactor physics presented in the 1951-1952 session.

Work performed at the Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory."August 11, 1952."Mode of access: Internet