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Isotopes & Radiation
Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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In October 2012, Dominion Energy announced it was closing the Kewaunee nuclear power plant, a two-loop 574-MWe pressurized water reactor located about 27 miles southeast of Green Bay, Wis., on the western shore of Lake Michigan. At the time, Dominion said the plant was running well, but that low wholesale electricity prices in the region made it uneconomical to continue operation of the single-unit merchant power plant.
A. E. Profio, H M. Antúunez, and D. L Huffman
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1969 | Pages 91-103
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A21117
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Time-of-flight measurements of the neutron angular flux spectrum in graphite have been made to provide a standard of comparison for neutron penetration calculations. The spectrum from 0.002 eV to 15 MeV was measured with an accuracy of ±13 to 32% and a resolution of ±2 to 10%, at angles from 0 to 60° and penetrations to 66 cm. Comparisons with Monte Carlo and discrete ordinates calculations using ENDF/B cross sections indicate fairly good agreement except in resonances and near zero degrees for discrete ordinates. Scalar fluxes have also been calculated with the moments method.