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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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DOE-EM awards $37.5M to Vanderbilt University for nuclear cleanup support
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced on January 16 that it has awarded a noncompetitive financial assistance agreement worth $37.5 million to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., to aid the department’s mission of cleaning up legacy nuclear waste.
Joel H. Ferziger
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 14 | Number 3 | November 1962 | Pages 244-248
doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A26213
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An extension of the methods for computing resonance integrals given by Chernick and Vernon (8) and Nordheim et al. (9) to the case of nonuniform temperature distributions in the absorber is given. Formally, the procedure is quite similar to the previous work and utilizes the same approximations: absorbed neutrons are broken into two groups according to whether their previous collisions were in the absorber or in the moderator; both the narrow resonance (NR) and infinite mass (NRIA) approximations are developed. The effect of nonuniform temperature distribution is to modify the escape probabilities required. The present calculation requires escape probabilities for lumps which contain nonuniform sources and/or cross sections. Methods of computing these escape probabilities are presented.