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DOE issues new NEPA rule and procedures—and accelerates DOME reactor testing
Meeting a deadline set in President Trump’s May 23 executive order “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy,” the DOE on June 30 updated information on its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rulemaking and implementation procedures and published on its website an interim final rule that rescinds existing regulations alongside new implementing procedures.
F. F. Felber, Jr., D. R. Farmelo, V. C. Van Sickle
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 25 | Number 1 | May 1966 | Pages 1-7
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A17494
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The integral 9Be (n, 2n) cross section was determined by using Be and BeO samples irradiated in the core of the Battelle Research Reactor. The value obtained was 460 ±60 mb for neutrons having energies above 2.7 MeV and a fission spectrum. Fast-neutron dosimetry was accomplished using iron, nickel, and titanium threshold detectors. The results are based on measurement of the total amount of helium produced during irradiation. Corrections were made for the small contribution from (n, α) reactions on 9Be and 16O.
