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NRC begins special inspection at Hope Creek
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is conducting a special inspection at Hope Creek nuclear plant in New Jersey to investigate the cause of repeated inoperability of one of the plant’s emergency diesel generators, the agency announced in a February 25 news release.
E. Karttunen, M. Brenner, V. A. Rubchená, S. A. Egorov, V. B. Funschtein, V. A. Jakovlev, Yu. A. Selitskiy
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 109 | Number 4 | December 1991 | Pages 350-359
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23860
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Cumulative 238U(p, f) cross sections are given for 37 nuclides in the energy region 12.5 to 17.5 MeV and for four nuclides up to 30 MeV. Also, 11 independent cross sections are reported. A theoretical model for calculating such quantities is described. The calculated cumulative cross sections are in relatively good agreement with the experimental values, except in the region of symmetric fission, where the calculated values are smaller. The measured total fission cross sections are in good agreement with previous results. From the independent cross sections, the influence of the nuclear shell Z = 50 on the charge distribution of fission fragments can be seen clearly.
