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Two steps forward for U.K. advanced nuclear
This week, two significant announcements have emerged from the United Kingdom’s advanced reactor sector.
On June 14, Rolls-Royce, the United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory, and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency announced that they had signed two trilateral memorandums of cooperation to collaborate on “advanced modular reactor (AMR) technology, specifically high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGR), and the coated particle fuel these reactors will use.”
Separately, on June 16, Bellevue, Wash.–based TerraPower announced that its Natrium reactor design has been formally submitted for U.K. regulatory review. The company also announced the formation of a new subsidiary, TerraPower UK Ltd.
R. K. Paschall
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 20 | Number 4 | December 1964 | Pages 436-444
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE64-A20985
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The age of fission neutrons to indium-resonance energy (1.46 eV) was measured in water using a plane fission source of finite diameter and essentially infinite plane detectors. This is equivalent to a measurement using axial detectors with an infinite plane source. Thus, unlike recent measurements which used axial detectors with large plane sources, these results do not require calculated corrections to extrapolate to infinite-source geometry. The remaining corrections are small and well understood. The age measured in this experiment was 26.48 ± 0.32 cm2 at a density of 1.0 g/ml.