ANS is committed to advancing, fostering, and promoting the development and application of nuclear sciences and technologies to benefit society.
Explore the many uses for nuclear science and its impact on energy, the environment, healthcare, food, and more.
Explore membership for yourself or for your organization.
Conference Spotlight
2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
Latest Magazine Issues
Mar 2026
Jan 2026
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
April 2026
Nuclear Technology
February 2026
Fusion Science and Technology
Latest News
U.K. vision for fusion
The U.K. government has announced a series of initiatives to progress fusion to commercialization, laid out in a fusion strategy policy paper published March 16. A New Energy Revolution: The UK’s Plan for Delivering Fusion Energy begins to describe how the government’s £2.5 billion (about $3.4 billion) investment in fusion research and development over five years will be allocated.
W. L. Whittemore
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 24 | Number 4 | April 1966 | Pages 394-409
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A16410
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The General Atomic neutron velocity selector has been used in conjunction with the electron Linac to produce monoenergetic neutrons in the range 0.167 to 0.499 eV. The scattering of neutrons at various angles between 30 and 150° by a thin specimen of crystalline polyethylene has been measured, and precise scattering cross sections σ(E0, E, θ) have been determined. The experimental results are compared in detail with the theoretical work of Goldman, Parks, Koppel and Young, and McMurry. The detailed comparisons indicate that a more-or-less continuous realistic frequency distribution, or an appropriate collection of isolated oscillator levels, can be used as the basis of computing a reasonably satisfactory scattering cross section for polyethylene. It appears that the models of Goldman, Parks, and Koppel and Young all overemphasize energy transfers at ≈ 0.089 eV, and tend to underemphasize the largest transfers at ≈ 0.35 eV. The extrapolation technique of Egelstaff applied to the Scattering Law gives a frequency distribution that is similar in broad outline to that used by Parks. However, small significance can be attributed to this agreement because of the probable and large contributions of the multiphonon terms.