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Standard Nuclear executes OTA with DOE
Reactor-agnostic TRISO fuel producer Standard Nuclear recently announced that it has executed an other transaction agreement (OTA) with the Department of Energy. As one of the five companies involved in the DOE’s Fuel Line Pilot Program, its entrance into this deal marks a milestone in the public-private effort to bring advanced fuel production on line in support of the DOE’s concurrently running Reactor Pilot Program.
Randall K. Cole, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 55 | Number 1 | September 1974 | Pages 85-88
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23969
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The lifetime distribution for initially monoenergetic photons subject to relativ-istic Compton (Klein-Nishina) scattering is evaluated using an analog of neutron slowing-down theory. By using reasonable approximations to the energy dependence of photon cross sections, this distribution and the lifetime-averaged cross sections are evaluated in closed form. The averaged cross sections are useful when all once-or-more scattered photons from a given source energy must be treated as a single group.
