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Senate committee hears from energy secretary nominee Chris Wright
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Chris Wright, president-elect Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Department of Energy, spent hours today fielding questions from members of the U.S. Senate’s committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
During the hearing, Wright—who’s spent most of his career in fossil fuels—made comments in support of nuclear energy and efforts to expand domestic generation in the near future. Asked what actions he would take as energy secretary to improve the development and deployment of SMRs, Wright said: “It’s a big challenge, and I’m new to government, so I can’t list off the five levers I can pull. But (I’ve been in discussions) about how to make it easier to research, to invest, to build things. The DOE has land at some of its facilities that can be helpful in this regard.”
Yoshitomo Uwamino, Hiroshi Sugita, Yuhri Kondo, Takashi Nakamura
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 111 | Number 4 | August 1992 | Pages 391-403
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE111-391
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
An intense semimonoenergetic neutron field was made using a simple beryllium target system bombarded by protons of nine different energies between 20 and 40 MeV. Natural sodium, aluminum, vanadium, chromium, manganese, copper, zinc, and gold samples were irradiated at this field, and gamma rays from the samples were observed by a germanium detector. The production rates of 17 radionuclides were obtained for the nine different neutron fields, and the excitation functions of these 17 reaction channels of 23Na(n,2n)22Na, 27Al(n, α)24Na, 51V(n, α)48Sc, 51V(n,p)51Ti, 50Cr(n,3n)48Cr, 50Cr(n,2n)49Cr, 55Mn(n,4n)51Ti, 55Mn(n,4n)52Mn, 55Mn(n,2n)54Mn, 63Cu(n,3n) Cu, 63Cu(n,2n)62Cu, 65Cu(n,p)65Ni, 64Zn(n,t)62 Cu, 64Zn(n,3n)62Zn, 64Zn(n,2n)63Zn, 197Au(n,4n)194Au, and 197Au(n,2n)196Au were obtained for neutron energies up to 40 MeV by using the SAND-II and the NEUPAC unfolding codes and also least-squares fitting. The initial guess value for these methods was obtained primarily from calculations of the ALICE/LIVERMORE82 code.
