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Senate committee hears from energy secretary nominee Chris Wright
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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.”
P. Nagel , J. Rodens, M. Blann, H.Gruppelaar
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 119 | Number 2 | February 1995 | Pages 97-107
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE95-A24074
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Results are summarized of an international code comparison designed to test codes that may provide the necessary nuclear data to evaluate schemes for the accelerator-driven transmutation of long-lived reactor wastes. This comparison of intermediate energy nuclear reaction codes was organized by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Nuclear Science Committee and presents results for thin-target double-differential (p,xn) and (p,xp) cross sections of 90Zr and 208Pb targets at incident energies of 25 to 1600 MeV. Here, results are presented primarily for 90Zr targets, and indications are given of the degree of dependability of these codes for thin-target measurements by use of a few comparisons of calculated and experimental yields. Broader comparisons are presented in the final NEA report.
