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EPA administrator Lee Zeldin talks the future of nuclear
In a recent interview on New York radio station 77 WABC, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Lee Zeldin talked with host John Catsimatidis about the near-term future of the domestic nuclear industry and the role the EPA will play in the sector.
Catsimatidis kicked off the interview by asking if the U.S. will be able to reach total energy independence. Zeldin responded by saying that decreasing energy dependence on other countries, especially adversaries, was a top priority for him and the Trump administration.
Y. Kirihara, M. Hagiwara, H. Iwase, S. Ban, T. Itoga, T. Nakamura
Nuclear Technology | Volume 168 | Number 3 | December 2009 | Pages 773-779
MC Calculations | Special Issue on the 11th International Conference on Radiation Shielding and the 15th Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division (PART 3) / Radiation Protection | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A9305
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We performed a systematic benchmark study of several Monte Carlo codes for neutron deep penetration experiments at 0 deg, which were previously performed using 40-, 65-, and 137-MeV quasi-monoenergetic neutrons and using continuous-energy neutrons up to 400 MeV. Neutron energy spectra behind shields and the attenuation lengths of the neutron flux are compared between the experiments and the calculations. All calculations generally well reproduce the energy spectra and the attenuation lengths measured in the experiments. The attenuation length obtained as a function of the incident neutron energy in this study rapidly increases with the incident energy.