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NRC provides timeline update on rules, meeting EO deadline
Last May, President Trump issued Executive Order (EO) 14300, “Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,” which mandated that the NRC review and overhaul its rules within 18 months of the EO being issued.
At a public meeting on Thursday, NRC officials shared details and an overview of the rulemaking process, saying that they were on target to have these rules ready by the November 23 deadline.
James E. Draper
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 1 | Number 6 | December 1956 | Pages 522-540
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE56-A18466
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Experiments on resonance neutron capture, scatter, or fission are often analyzed with thin-foil approximations, but for reasons of intensity are better performed with foils of intermediate thickness. For aid in analyzing the resulting corrections, the probability is calculated that a neutron at normal incidence on a foil will be scattered and undergo a second interaction in the foil. This probability is averaged over a resonance and is compared to the probability of a first interaction. The extension to multiple interactions is considered. An important effect is the change in cross section because of energy loss in elastic scattering. The Doppler broadening of resonances and the effect of potential scattering are also included. The application to the area analysis of self-indication experiments is emphasized. This general case includes several more restricted cases with resonant detectors and with nonresonant detectors.