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ANS standard updated for determining meteorological information at nuclear facilities
Following approval in October from the American National Standards Institute, ANSI/ANS-3.11-2024, Determining Meteorological Information at Nuclear Facilities, was published in late November. This standard provides criteria for gathering, assembling, processing, storing, and disseminating meteorological information at commercial nuclear power plants, U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration nuclear facilities, and other national or international nuclear facilities.
Shenggui Yin, Xiaolong Huang
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 169 | Number 2 | October 2011 | Pages 198-207
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE10-43
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Based on the available experimental data for total cross section, nonelastic cross section, and elastic scattering angular distribution of n + 32,natS, a set of neutron optical potential parameters is obtained. The complete sets of nuclear data for n + 32,34S < 20 MeV are calculated. These sets include cross sections, angular distributions of elastic scattering, energy spectra and/or double-differential cross sections of all emitted particles, and gamma production data (production cross sections and multiplicity, energy spectra) in all kinds of reactions. The calculated results are generally in good accordance with experimental data and are compared with JENDL-3.3.