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Disney World should have gone nuclear
There is extra significance to the American Nuclear Society holding its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, this past week. That’s because in 1967, the state of Florida passed a law allowing Disney World to build a nuclear power plant.
Chizuo Mori, Masayuki Tojo, Katsuo Yanagida, Junichi Goto, Akira Uritani, Hiroshi Miyahara, Yuyan Wu, Katsuhisa Kudo, Naoto Takeda, Yujiro Ikeda, Yoshimi Kasugai, Toshiyuki Iida, Yoichi Sakuma, Mamiko Sasao
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 1134-1138
Neutronics Experiments and Analyses | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963101
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A new type of fast neutron spectrometer composed of a proportional counter with methane and a Si semiconductor detector was constructed for the measurement of plasma-temperature. Methane can act as recoil-proton converter and also as energy loss measurement of the proton in the converter. Si detector, off-centered to avoid radiation damage, measures the rest energy of the recoil-proton. The energy resolutions were 2.4 % for 5 MeV neutrons and 2.9 % for 14 MeV neutrons.
