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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.
Jingshang Zhang, Yinlu Han, Ligang Cao
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 133 | Number 2 | October 1999 | Pages 218-234
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE98-100
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The double-differential cross sections of outgoing neutrons and alpha particles of the 12C(n,xn) and 12C(n,x) reactions are measured. A new nuclear reaction model for light nuclei is proposed to analyze the measured data. Because of a strong recoil effect in light nucleus reactions, the energy balance is strictly taken into account. Based on this new method, the LUNF code is developed to calculate all kinds of reaction cross sections and energy-angular distributions for the n + 12C reaction in the 4.8- to 20-MeV energy region. The reaction channel of (n,n'3) may proceed via a number of different reaction channels, as sequential particle emissions and two-body separation. The comparisons of the calculated results with the measured experimental data indicate that the model calculations are successful for outgoing neutrons. Also, kerma factors derived from the calculated results are compared with the measurements.
