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Five companies receive DOE awards for HALEU transport packages
Five companies are the recipients of Department of Energy awards to support the development, modification, and licensing of transportation packages for high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) fuel. HALEU, which is enriched between 5 percent and 20 percent, is the type of fuel required for the operation of many of the small advanced nuclear reactors that are being designed and developed by U.S. companies.
Vladimir M. Maslov, Yasuyuki Kikuchi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 124 | Number 3 | November 1996 | Pages 492-497
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A17927
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A statistical model is used to interpret the available 232U(n,f) cross-section data in the neutron energy range from 0.003 to 7.4 MeV Below an incident neutron energy of ≈ 1 MeV, the nonthreshold energy dependence of the 232U(n,f) cross section is interpreted in a double-humped fission barrier model, the inner barrier of fissioning nucleus being ≈1 MeV lower than the outer one, as anticipated with the shell correction method calculation.
