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Sellafield awards $3.86B in infrastructure contracts to three companies
Sellafield Ltd., the site license company overseeing the decommissioning of the U.K.’s Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, England, announced the award of £2.9 billion (about $3.86 billion) in infrastructure support contracts to the companies of Morgan Sindall Infrastructure, Costain, and HOCHTIEF (UK) Construction.
Edward Garelis, John L. Russell, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 16 | Number 3 | July 1963 | Pages 263-270
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A26529
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A new method of utilizing pulsed neutron source measurements for the determination of the subcriticality of an assembly directly in terms of dollars is proposed. Essentially, the method determines the parameter (kβ/l) using the complete response curve of a repetitively pulsed assembly after the quasi-equilibrium state has been attained. This value of (kβ/l) coupled with the usual α-measurement, assuming the prompt decay constant to be dominant, yields the reactivity directly. The analytical model is based on a bare one-group diffusion theory system with m-delayed precursors. The application of these results to experiment shows that their applicability is much broader than the simple analytical model would indicate.