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Keeping up with Kewaunee
In October 2012, Dominion Energy announced it was closing the Kewaunee nuclear power plant, a two-loop 574-MWe pressurized water reactor located about 27 miles southeast of Green Bay, Wis., on the western shore of Lake Michigan. At the time, Dominion said the plant was running well, but that low wholesale electricity prices in the region made it uneconomical to continue operation of the single-unit merchant power plant.
J. Halperin, R. W. Stoughton, C. V. Ellison, D. E. Ferguson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 1 | Number 1 | March 1956 | Pages 1-3
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE56-A17653
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Thorium metal was irradiated in the thermal neutron flux of the Low Intensity Test Reactor and of a graphite reactor. From mass spectrographic analysis of the U234 content and assumption of an effective capture cross section (including epithermal as well as thermal neutron capture) of 8.0 barns for Th232, the effective neutron capture cross section of Pa233 for thermal reactor neutrons was determined to be 140 ± 20 barns.
