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Senate committee hears from energy secretary nominee Chris Wright
Wright
Chris Wright, president-elect Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Department of Energy, spent hours today fielding questions from members of the U.S. Senate’s committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
During the hearing, Wright—who’s spent most of his career in fossil fuels—made comments in support of nuclear energy and efforts to expand domestic generation in the near future. Asked what actions he would take as energy secretary to improve the development and deployment of SMRs, Wright said: “It’s a big challenge, and I’m new to government, so I can’t list off the five levers I can pull. But (I’ve been in discussions) about how to make it easier to research, to invest, to build things. The DOE has land at some of its facilities that can be helpful in this regard.”
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
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
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.
