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Work crews at Idaho National Laboratory have transferred 40 spent nuclear fuel canisters into long-term storage vaults, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has reported.
Paul Michael
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 8 | Number 5 | November 1960 | Pages 426-431
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25824
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The steady-state space-energy distribution of thermal neutrons in homogeneous media is considered in the diffusion approximation. From the general form of the solution it is shown that the asymptotic (in space) distribution depends upon the source distribution and under different circumstances can be qualitatively different. The relation of the asymptotic flux to the usually found infinite medium spectrum is exhibited. For a heavy gas moderator the asymptotic flux from a source of limited extent is shown to be much softer than an infinite medium spectrum in the same material.