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NRC looks to leverage previous approvals for large LWRs
During this time of resurging interest in nuclear power, many conversations have centered on one fundamental problem: Electricity is needed now, but nuclear projects (in recent decades) have taken many years to get permitted and built.
In the past few years, a bevy of new strategies have been pursued to fix this problem. Workforce programs that seek to laterally transition skilled people from other industries, plans to reuse the transmission infrastructure at shuttered coal sites, efforts to restart plants like Palisades or Duane Arnold, new reactor designs that build on the legacy of research done in the early days of atomic power—all of these plans share a common throughline: leveraging work already done instead of starting over from square one to get new plants designed and built.
Mojtaba Taherzadeh
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 44 | Number 2 | May 1971 | Pages 190-193
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A19667
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The problem of evaluating neutron yield from the (α, n) reaction in oxygen has been the subject of much experimental investigation for many years. However, the computational probe has not been extensive, basically due to lack of required data in the literature. Using a computer program, calculations were made to obtain the number of neutrons emitted when a particles from the 238Pu isotope interact with 18O. Neutron yield (n/α) is calculated specifically for each excited state of the recoil 21Ne isotope. The result is in good agreement with the experimental value.
