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DOE-EM awards $37.5M to Vanderbilt University for nuclear cleanup support
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced on January 16 that it has awarded a noncompetitive financial assistance agreement worth $37.5 million to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., to aid the department’s mission of cleaning up legacy nuclear waste.
D. M. Clare, W. H. Martin, B. T. Kelly
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 18 | Number 4 | April 1964 | Pages 448-458
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A18763
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An experimental comparison has been made in a hollow fuel element in PLUTO of a number of possible fast-neutron flux monitors with the object of providing such a flux monitor for irradiations in very high flux materials-testing reactors. If 107 mb is adopted as the reference fast-neutron activation cross section of Ni58, the fast-neutron activation cross sections for the reactions Fe54 (n,p) Mn54 and Ti46 (n,p) Sc46 are found to be 73 mb and 8 mb respectively. It is concluded from this experiment that the Fe54 (n,p) Mn54 reaction using iron enriched to 95% Fe54 will be an adequate long-half-life fast-neutron flux monitor for irradiation in the high-flux facilities such as those likely to be used in, for example, BR-2.
