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NextGen MURR to partner with Burns & McDonnell
The University of Missouri has entered a consulting agreement with construction firm Burns & McDonnell to develop NextGen MURR, a new 20-MW light water research reactor that will produce medical isotopes for cancer treatments and theranostics and will be used to conduct neutron science research.
E. Martinho, M. M. Costa Paiva
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 45 | Number 3 | September 1971 | Pages 308-313
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A19082
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Diffusion parameters of thermal neutrons in water were determined from diffusion length measurements in 22 boron-poisoned aqueous solutions. A uniform plane source of thermal neutrons and a parallelepipedal polymethyl methacrylate container having a buckling of B2 = 9.1 × 10−2 cm−2 were used. The derived values of the diffusion parameters of thermal neutrons in water at 22 °C are These results are found to be in good agreement with Doming's recent calculations.