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X-energy forms partnership with Talen Energy to assess Xe-100 deployment
X-energy announced Thursday that it has signed a letter of intent with Talen Energy to assess the deployment of X-energy’s Xe-100 reactor in Pennsylvania and throughout the market area of the PJM Interconnection regional transmission organization. That area, where the companies intend to explore the deployment of at least three four-unit Xe-100 power plants, includes several states in the eastern United States, from New Jersey to Illinois.
A. Paulsen, H. Liskien, F. Arnotte, R. Widera
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 78 | Number 4 | August 1981 | Pages 377-385
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A21371
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A measuring program has been carried out at the Van de Graaff accelerator facility of the Central Bureau for Nuclear Measurements for the determination of (n, α) cross sections on the main constituents of fast reactor structural materials, namely the elements chromium, iron, and nickel. The alpha particles are detected in a reaction chamber by telescope counter arrangements at five observation angles between 14 and 141 deg. Results obtained in the energy range from 5 to 10 MeV are presented in terms of laboratory angle-differential cross sections, relative Legendre polynomial coefficients of angular distributions, angle-integrated cross sections, and average alpha energies.