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When Constellation decided to install replacement Alstom low-pressure turbines at three of its boiling water reactor plants more than 15 years ago, one benefit was knowing the new turbines should operate reliably—and without major inspections—for several years.
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For the first time, an experimentally determined excitation function for tritium production from beryllium has been obtained. Beryllium samples were irradiated with well-known fluxes of monoenergetic neutrons in the 12.86- to 19.57-MeV energy range and the induced tritium was quantitatively extracted and counted. The results disagree with the JEF-1 prediction but show a remarkably good agreement with JENDL-3/PR2 and a recent Los Alamos National Laboratory evaluation, both based on 14-MeV values and theoretical calculations.