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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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NEA panel on AI hosted at World Governments Summit
A panel on the potential of artificial intelligence to accelerate small modular reactors was held at the World Governments Summit (WGS) in February in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency cohosted the event, which attracted leaders from developers, IT companies, regulators, and other experts.
K. Wisshak, F. Käppeler
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 76 | Number 2 | November 1980 | Pages 148-162
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE80-A19447
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The neutron capture and subthreshold fission cross section of 241Am was measured in the energy range from 10 to 250 keV, using 197Au and 235U as the respective standards. Neutrons were produced via the 7Li(p,n) and the T(p,n) reaction with the Karlsruhe 3-MV pulsed Van de Graaff accelerator. Capture events were detected by a Moxon-Rae detector and fission events by a NE-213 liquid scintillator with pulse-shape discriminator equipment. Flight paths as short as 50 to 66 mm were used to obtain optimum signal-to-background ratio. The capture cross section could be determined with a total statistical and systematic uncertainty of 4 to 10% while the respective values are 13 to 20% for the fission cross section. The results are compared with recent data of other authors, which in some cases are severely discrepant.
