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NRC proposed rule for licensing reactors authorized by DOE, DOD
Nuclear reactor designs approved by the Department of Energy or Department of Defense could get streamlined pathways through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s commercial licensing process should applicants wish to push the technology into the civilian sector.
A proposed rule introduced April 2 by the NRC would “improve NRC licensing review efficiency, where applicable, by explicitly establishing by regulation an additional means for reactor applicants to demonstrate the safety functions of their reactor designs, and thus, would contribute to the safe and secure use and deployment of civilian nuclear energy technologies.”
C. W. Alexander, J. Halperin, J. B. Knauer, R. L. Walker
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 95 | Number 3 | March 1987 | Pages 194-199
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE87-A20448
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Two-group integral neutron capture cross sections have been measured for 144Sm and 145Sm. Mass spectrographic assays were carried out on highly enriched samples of 144Sm that were irradiated in a high-flux nuclear reactor making use of cadmium filters and cobalt as a flux monitor. Under the assumption that these nuclides have a (1/ν) dependence in the thermal region, the following are reported: for 144Sm, σc2200 = 1.64 ± 0.10 and Ic = 2.38 ± 0.17 b; for 145Sm, σc2200 = 280 ± 21 and Ic = 600 ± 90 b.
