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Plastic waste pollutes oceans, streams, and bloodstreams. Nations in Asia and the Pacific are working with the International Atomic Energy Agency through the Nuclear Technology for Controlling Plastic Pollution (NUTEC Plastics) initiative to tackle the problem. Launched in 2020, NUTEC Plastics is focused on using nuclear technology to both track the flow of microplastics and improve upstream plastic recycling before discarded plastic can enter the ecosystem. Irradiation could target hard-to-recycle plastics and the development of bio-based plastics, offering sustainable alternatives to conventional plastic products and building a “circular economy” for plastics, according to the IAEA.
R. L. Macklin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 59 | Number 3 | March 1976 | Pages 231-236
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26821
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The 165Ho(n, γ) cross section was measured at the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator neutron time-of-flight facility. Nonhydrogenous scintillation detectors were used with pulse-height weighting to measure the prompt photon yield, normalized to the saturated 3.92-eV resonance in (165Ho + n) and the shape of the 6Li(n, α) cross section. Resonance parameters for many of the observed peaks below 3 keV were determined by a nonlinear least-squares fit. The data to 100 keV were well fitted with energy-independent strength functions 104 S0 = 1.33 ± 0.14, 104 S1 = 1.36 ± 0.24, 104S2 = 1.19 ± 0.76 and γ/D0 = 0.076/(3.23 ± 0.55 eV). The fluctuations of the cross section about the strength function fit are analyzed for 250-eV averages. The Wald-Wolfowitz “Runs” test is consistent with no additional nonrandom structure in the cross section.