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Nuclear energy for maritime shipping and coastal applications
The Boston-based Deon Policy Institute has published a white paper that examines the applications of nuclear energy in the maritime sector—specifically, floating nuclear power plants and nuclear propulsion for commercial vessels. Topics covered include available technologies, preliminary cost estimates, and a status update on the regulatory framework.
Unique opportunity: The paper points out that nuclear energy has the potential to benefit the shipping industry with high energy efficiency, lower operating costs, and zero carbon emissions. The report has a special focus on Greece, a nation that controls about 20 percent of the global commercial fleet and thus has an opportunity to take a leading role in the transition to nuclear-powered shipping.
P. F. Nichols
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 7 | Number 5 | May 1960 | Pages 395-399
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25736
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A direct measurement of the graphite absorption cross section has been made in the Physical Constants Testing Reactor (PCTR). The sample tested was reactor grade (GBF) graphite, and had a 2200 m/sec absorption cross section of 3.80 ± 0.04 mb including all impurities. This measurement also provides a normalization for the Hanford Test Reactor relative measurement which have been in progress for over fifteen years. Samples of American, French, and British graphite were also tested in the HTR to provide a basis for comparing the results of American, British, and French graphite absorption cross-section measurements. The graphite bars involved have also been tested at Harwell and Saclay.
