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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
Dušan Babala
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 28 | Number 2 | May 1967 | Pages 237-242
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A17473
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On the basis of Kolmogorov's general theory of chain processes, a formula for a conditional count probability as measured by a certain type of time analyzer is derived and compared with the classical Rossi-α formula. The discrepancy between the Rossi-&aplha; formula and the experimental results reported by several authors is explained. It is shown that this discrepancy is due to the frequently misunderstood function of the time analyzer used. The mathematical technique employed in the paper is well suited for calculating the conditional count probabilities, which might possibly be measured by other types of time analyzers.