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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
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Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE73-A19491
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An empirical correlation of k∞ of a nucleus with the difference between its neutron binding energy and activation energy for fission, based on available data, suggests the possibility of providing estimates of k∞ of other heavy even-neutron nuclides. Calculated values of the activation and binding energies for nuclides ranging from to 2.