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T. B. Ryves
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 72 | Number 3 | December 1979 | Pages 357-359
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A20391
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In reactor decommissioning calculations, the production of 127-yr 108mAg from trace amounts of silver in the stainless-steel structure of the reactor is very significant. The thermal (2200-ms−1)-neutron capture cross section of 107Ag for the production of metastable 108mAg was measured as 0.366 ± 0.065 b, where the uncertainty is nearly all due to the half-life. The ratios of the resonance integrals to the thermal-neutron capture cross sections for the formation of 108mAg and 110mAg were also determined.
