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The last days of Hallam
The Hallam nuclear power plant, about 25 miles southwest of Lincoln, Neb., was an important part of the Atomic Energy Commission’s Reactor Power Demonstration Program. But in the end, it operated for only 6,271 hours and generated about 192.5 million kilowatt-hours of electric power during its short, 15-month life.
Janet Seltzer, W. K. Firk
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 53 | Number 4 | April 1974 | Pages 415-419
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23372
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The total neutron cross section of sodium has been measured in the vicinity of the 2.8-keV resonance with the high-resolution time-of-flight spectrometer associated with the Yale University 70-MeV Electron Linear Accelerator. The spin of the resonance is unambiguously identified to be J = 1 . A least-squares analysis of the cross section has been carried out up to an energy of 50 keV using a model that takes into account the effects of local and distant levels. The observed total cross section is well described throughout the entire range with a spin-independent interaction radius of 5.8 fm and with reasonable values of the R functions (distant level effects) for both spin states. The resonance energy, the neutron width, and the effective nuclear radii derived from the analysis are, respectively, ER = 2805 ± 30 eV, ΓnR = 376 ± 15 eV, aJ =1 = 5.3 fm, and aJ=2(E) = 5.7 + [2 × 108/(E + 18500)2] fm.
