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60 Years of U: Perspectives on resources, demand, and the evolving role of nuclear energy
Recent years have seen growing global interest in nuclear energy and rising confidence in the sector. For the first time since the early 2000s, there is renewed optimism about the industry’s future. This change is driven by several major factors: geopolitical developments that highlight the need for secure energy supplies, a stronger focus on resilient energy systems, national commitments to decarbonization, and rising demand for clean and reliable electricity.
Thomas E. Stephenson and Sol Pearlstein
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 32 | Number 3 | June 1968 | Pages 377-384
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A20220
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Early work ascertained that the Mn total cross section could not be fit by the Breit-Wigner single-level formula. Later work showed that a satisfactory fit below 10 keV could be achieved by the use of R-matrix analysis. Here, recent resonance data and the Breit-Wigner multilevel formula are used to fit the experimental data from 0.01 eV to 50 keV. Two bound levels and several positive energy levels are introduced in order to produce very good agreement with the measured total cross section. The parametric representation of the 55Mn cross section yields calculated values of 13.4 and 15 b for the capture 2200 m/sec cross section and resonance integral, and 1.94, 1.71, and 556 b for the thermal-bound atom, coherent-scattering cross section, and scattering resonance integral, respectively, all values being in good agreement with experiment. Qualitative agreement is obtained with polarization data.