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Grant awarded for advanced reactor workforce needs in southeast U.S.
North Carolina State University and the Electric Power Research Institute have been awarded a $500,000 grant by the NC Collaboratory for “An Assessment to Define Advanced Reactor Workforce Needs,” a project that aims to investigate job needs to help enable new nuclear development and deployment in North Carolina and surrounding areas.
A. Dodaro, F. V. Frazzoli, R. Remetti
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 130 | Number 1 | September 1998 | Pages 141-152
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE98-A1996
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The development and setup of a procedure to simulate passive assays of plutonium dioxide samples by the neutron coincidence counting technique are presented. The main topics are pulse train simulation methodology, application of the neutron coincidence counting technique to the simulated pulse trains and subsequent Reals rate calculation, validation of the simulation procedure by direct comparison with experimental data from 1 × 101 g ÷ 2.5 × 103 g PuO2 reference standards, application of the simulator for studying ideal well counters, and presentation of further developments concerning possible applications of the simulator as a design tool for well counters and for studying dead-time and induced fission correction formulas.
