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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.
Hugh K. Clark
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 15 | Number 1 | January 1963 | Pages 20-28
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A26260
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A simple technique is described for computing the interaction in groupings of fissionable units. The units may be slabs, cylinders, or spheres and may be surrounded by a reflector. The validity of the approximations employed is discussed. The technique is illustrated by applying it to the specific example of calculating the interaction in a reflected cubic array of eight spheres of uranium (93.5% U235). Comparisons are made with experiment and with other methods of calculation.