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NextGen MURR to partner with Burns & McDonnell
The University of Missouri has entered a consulting agreement with construction firm Burns & McDonnell to develop NextGen MURR, a new 20-MW light water research reactor that will produce medical isotopes for cancer treatments and theranostics and will be used to conduct neutron science research.
R. R. Nason, J. K. Shultis, R. E. Faw, C. E. Clifford
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 79 | Number 4 | December 1981 | Pages 404-416
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A21391
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A benchmark gamma-ray skyshine experiment is described in which 60Co sources were either collimated into an upward 150-deg conical beam or shielded vertically by two different thicknesses of concrete. A NaI(Tl) spectrometer and a high pressure ion chamber were used to measure, respectively, the energy spectrum and the 4π-exposure rate of the air-reflected gamma photons up to 700 m from the source. Analyses of the data and comparison to DOT discrete ordinates calculations are presented.