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EPA administrator Lee Zeldin talks the future of nuclear
In a recent interview on New York radio station 77 WABC, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Lee Zeldin talked with host John Catsimatidis about the near-term future of the domestic nuclear industry and the role the EPA will play in the sector.
Catsimatidis kicked off the interview by asking if the U.S. will be able to reach total energy independence. Zeldin responded by saying that decreasing energy dependence on other countries, especially adversaries, was a top priority for him and the Trump administration.
C. O. Muehlhause
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 5 | Number 4 | April 1959 | Pages 225-226
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE59-A25588
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Values for the number of neutrons produced per thermal neutron absorbed, ηth, in the three fissile materials U233, U235, and Pu239 are reported. The measurement of these quantities was performed between the years 1951 and 1953 at the Argonne National Laboratory using the original enriched heavy water reactor, CP3', and the technique of pile oscillation. A slight revision of the data has been made on the basis of new total cross sections and f-values. The eta values at thermal energy (0.0253 ev) were found to be η23 = 2.25 ± 0.03, η25 = 2.05 ± 0.03, and η49 = 2.04 ± 0.04.