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Guidance for Creating a Community Benefits Plan for Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs

Guidance for Creating a Community Benefits Plan for Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs

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U.S. Department of Energy Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations
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This document is intended to provide supplemental information to assist applicants developing a Community Benefits Plan (CBP) for the Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs. As shown in the graphic to the right, Community Benefits Plans are based on a set of four core interdependent policy priorities: engaging communities and labor; investing in America's workforce; advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility; and implementing Justice40.

Policies for Achieving Energy Justice in Society: Best Practices for Applying Solar Energy Technologies to Low-Income Housing

Policies for Achieving Energy Justice in Society: Best Practices for Applying Solar Energy Technologies to Low-Income Housing

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Center for Energy and Environmental Policy - University of Delaware
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Studies indicate that the energy burden — energy costs as a percentage of annual family income — on low-income families is inordinately high, compared to that of the rest of the population. Rising fuel costs exacerbate this problem. Residential solar energy systems can help address this situation by furnishing a price-stable energy source with the added benefit of reduced greenhouse gas emissions. However, without appropriate incentives, these systems are prohibitively expensive for low-income families.

Application of Sensitivity/Uncertainty Methods to Burnup Credit Criticality Validation

Application of Sensitivity/Uncertainty Methods to Burnup Credit Criticality Validation

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Mueller, D. E. ,
Wagner, J. C.
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The responsible use of calculational methods in nuclear criticality safety includes a determination of bias and bias uncertainty that may exist between the calculated results and reality. Such biases exist due to approximations used to model the real world, uncertainties in nuclear data, and approximations associated with the calculational method (e.g., Monte Carlo method). The bias and bias uncertainty are typically determined by using the modeling approximations, nuclear data, and calculational method to model well-known, usually critical, systems.
burnup credit criticality analysis iaea-tecdoc-1547 iaea sensitivity analysis

OECD/NEA Burnup Credit Criticality Benchmark, Analysis of Phase II-B Results: Conceptual PWR Spent Fuel Transportation Cask

OECD/NEA Burnup Credit Criticality Benchmark, Analysis of Phase II-B Results: Conceptual PWR Spent Fuel Transportation Cask

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Nouri, A.
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The OECD/NEA “Burn-up Credit Criticality Benchmark” working group has studied the effect of axial burn-up profile on the criticality of a realistic PWR spent fuel transport cask (Phase II-B). The final results of this benchmark are presented and analysed in this report. Nine basic cases and two additional accident configurations were considered with the following varying parameters: burn-up (0 GWd/t for fresh fuel, 30 and 50 GWd/t), fuel composition (actinides only and actinides with fifteen fission products), axial burn-up discretisation (1 or 9 zones).
criticality pwr fuel transport cask end effect source convergence burnup axial burnup profile

Research Supporting Implementation of Burnup Credit in the Criticality Safety Assessment of Transport and Storage Casks

Research Supporting Implementation of Burnup Credit in the Criticality Safety Assessment of Transport and Storage Casks

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Parks, C. V. ,
Gauld, I. C. ,
Wagner, J. C. ,
Broadhead, B. L. ,
DeHart, M. D. ,
Ebert, D. D.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Office of Regulatory Research (RES) has initiated a program to support effective implementation of burnup credit in the criticality safety assessment of transport and dry storage casks. The goal is to develop technical bases that can be used to provide criteria and guidance for use in licensing activities. The program is being conducted in a phased approach, with the initial focus on unresolved issues related to the use of actinide-only bumupcredit in transport and dry storage casks designed for spent fuel from pressurized-water reaciors (PWRs).
burnup credit transport cask storage cask criticality safety analysis
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