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How can the U.S. ensure new nuclear builds get off to a good start?
Bradley Williams
The United States is already off to a good start with respect to new nuclear deployment. The completion of Vogtle Units 3 and 4, the Natrium groundbreaking, and X-energy’s partnership with Dow Chemical to deploy an advanced reactor for industrial applications are all important first steps. These efforts are being complemented by the flurry of licensing activity with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and overwhelming support in Congress and the White House. But to achieve the current administration’s goal of tripling nuclear capacity by 2050, more needs to be done.
Nobuhiro Yamamuro
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 118 | Number 4 | December 1994 | Pages 249-259
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE94-A21495
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An estimation of the production of long-lived radionuclides by neutron-induced reactions in potential fusion reactor materials is very important for the development of low-activation materials. Although some measured data of activation cross sections leading to long-lived radioactive nuclides are available, the development of a calculation capability is necessary to provide complete excitation functions of the reactions involved. Calculations are not generally effective when experimental data to determine the parameters used in the model calculation are limited. In the SINCROS-II system, the consistency of the method of calculation is respected, and the parameters used are cross-checked by the available experimental data and the systematic trend of the calculated results. Thus, the SINCROS-II is expected to predict the activation cross sections with good accuracy, even if the cross section is calculated for a radioactive target nucleus. As an example of the cross-section predictions, the activation cross-section calculations are presented up to 20 MeV for neutron-induced production of long-lived radioactive nuclides 60Co, 59Ni, 63Ni, 91Nb, 94Nb, 93Mo, 99Mo, 108mAg, 150mEu, 152Eu, 158Tb, and 186mRe.