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Last of Cs-137 irradiators removed from South Carolina
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration announced that it has successfully removed all cesium-137 irradiators from South Carolina, as the agency seeks to eliminate radiological threats and protect communities.
Cs-137 sources are commonly used to irradiate cellular blood cells prior to transfusion to prevent graft-versus-host disease, where the donated cells view the recipient’s cells as an unfamiliar threat. If stolen from a less-secure facility, however, the cesium inside the irradiators could be used to create a radiological dispersal device, commonly referred to as a dirty bomb.
Rubin Goldstein, E. Richard Cohen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 13 | Number 2 | June 1962 | Pages 132-140
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-1
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A treatment of resonance absorption intermediate between the usual narrow and wide resonance approximations is developed for homogeneous systems. An arbitrary parameter, λ, is introduced into the flux and two distinct approximations are employed to determine λ as a function of the resonance parameters. One is based upon a method of equating successive orders of approximation and the other is based upon a variational principle. Formulas are given, from which the resonance integral may be calculated. The parameter λ characterizes, in essence, the location between the narrow and wide resonance extremes, of the actual resonance. When λ is set equal to 0 or 1, the usual first order wide or narrow resonance integrals are obtained. Sample calculations are carried out for a good intermediate case (the 192 ev resonance of U238 in a 1:1 atomic mixture with hydrogen) using linear and nonlinear trial functions for both types of approximations. All results agree to within less than one percent of 0.172 barns. In comparison, the usual extreme energy-loss assumptions yield results which differ by more than a factor of 2 (0.121 barns for the narrow resonance approximation and 0.253 barns for the wide resonance approximation).